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Reflections on Black Consciousness: Lewis Gordon and Paul Gilroy in conversation

Intelligence Squared

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Do You Think It's Ok for White Writers to Write Black Characters?

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.

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