The book is about the significance of black music, such as blues, to black consciousness. But it also argues that there are other kinds of music that can help us understand our history and culture. The author says he has often wondered what a society would be like if it was not so committed to who's better than whom but for people to bring out their best performance.
Professor Lewis Gordon is a leading philosopher and Department Head at the University of Connecticut who believes that intellectual thought matters as much as political activism in the struggle to achieve racial justice. His recent book Fear of Black Consciousness is an exploration that combines academic theory and also his ideas on pop culture to create a broad and thought-provoking study, Gordon is joined in conversation by Professor Paul Gilroy, author, one of the world’s foremost theorists of race and racism, and Founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism & Racialisation at University College London.
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