In the book, i make a distinction between small bee black consciousness and upper case be black consciousness. It's the one that's imposed upon us, that locks into the notion of ourselves as abject and pure negation. I love all these things, but i don't love it in a way that makes me have to degrade other people's way of living in order for the way i live to be special. And so if we come into this question of politics,. you may notice i really try to distinguish the tendency to sell moralism from getting things done. The thing we have to understand about political life is its hard work. One of the things bell things bell understood about radical love is
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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