I think it's a distinction between appropriation and theft. Good music, good art, belongs to everybody. But the misrepresentation of history is a form of epistemic injustice. We should fight against it. Yes, i sit with shakespeare and he winces. Not ok. I can never get to that point, louis, cause i'm always the worst person in the band. So i don't, you know, i think the love and the joy that you spoke of is really, is really something that's implicated in my presence there with the others.
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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