Paul Gilroy Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

En los últimos años, Europa asiste a una crisis de la sociedad multicultural, una crisis relacionada en gran medida con la «guerra contra el terrorismo global» en la que, de una u otra forma, todos estamos involucrados. Por otra parte, el auge de los discursos identitarios, nacionalistas y xenófobos representa una indudable amenaza que parece aliarse ahora con la idea de que, en nuestras avanzadas sociedades, es imposible combinar la diversidad cultural con una convivencia pacífica y mutuamente enriquecedora. ¿Podemos recuperar aún la utopía de la tolerancia, la paz y el respeto a la diferencia? Paul Gilroy aborda en este esclarecedor ensayo el decisivo debate entre homogeneización y diversidad social, y apuesta claramente por una renovación de la ética y la política multiculturalistas que permita no sólo cohabitar con el otro sino que sepa dar respuesta a cuestiones apremiantes como las desigualdades sociales, la lucha por los recursos económicos o la defensa universal de los derechos humanos. Después del imperio nos invita a contemplar bajo una nueva luz cuestiones tales como la emigración, el racismo y la historia poscolonial europea.

In Postcolonial Melancholia, Paul Gilroy continues the conversation he began in his landmark study of race and nation, 'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, ' by once again departing from conventional wisdom to examine-and defend-multiculturalism within the context of a post-9/11 "politics of security." Gilroy adapts the concept of melancholia from its Freudian origins and applies it to the social pathology of neoimperialist politics. His unorthodox analysis pinpoints melancholic reactions not only in the hostility and violence directed at blacks, immigrants, and aliens but also in an inability to value the ordinary, unruly multiculture that has evolved organically and unnoticed in urban centers. Drawing on seminal discussions of race by Frantz Fanon, W. E. B. DuBois, and George Orwell, Gilroy goes beyond the idea of mere tolerance and proposes that it is possible to celebrate multiculture and live with otherness without becoming anxious, fearful, or violent.

There is, Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once, a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new and, until now, unremarked. Challenging the practices and assumptions of cultural studies, Gilroy complicates and enriches our understanding of modernism. He also exposes the shared contours of Black and Jewish concepts of diaspora to establish a theoretical basis for healing rifts between blacks and Jews in contemporary culture.

This text is a powerful indictment of contemporary academic practices, in which Gilroy highlighted the inadequacies of the British approach to race. It provided a powerful new direction for race relations theory in Britain