E louis: The breadth of this book is very striking. There's a split, really, between those who consider blackness to be essentially a political phenomenon and others who see it only as a kind of corporeal descriptor. And the second thing, as i said, which relates to your own body of work as a philosopher, but seems made concrete in many of the arguments here. E louis: How do you see bad faith in the moment that we inhabit right now?
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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