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Against Race (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)

Paul Gilroy’s book previous to Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line was the much-lauded The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993). For those interested in the field of culture studies, The Black Atlantic was simply the book that one had to read. In terms of its impact on African American studies, it stands as one of the handful of works from the 1990’s that offered a fundamentally fresh way of looking at the field. That was the case not so much because no one had ever considered Gilroy’s central thesis that the...

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