We need to rethink the way we think of everything cities, food and how we relate to people. We are in the act of doing it. And dere those who would like us to stay trapped in a closed past that blocks the way to deal with this creative spirit. So ye, do the work. That's what wee got to do. Do the work. I was thinking. All riht, i could go beyond my nation. The next question. You suggested that instead of focusing on burning down the house, we should instead aim to build more livable homes. Now the question is, what does that look like in your imagination?
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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