Di you follow me, am, i sortally follow you to a certain controversy. There are many ways in ordinary language otey. Theyre people who are as we know ther. There are ways in which any category of openness can slide into closure. And this is one of the reasons why i bring it up in my book. I don't believe there's anything other than a certain controversy,. so when there was an attack on a young woman being attacked for raising a question of transratiality, i did not want to be one of those women.
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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