This book opens up with talking about being a child in jamaica. And also it throughout resists the tendency to look at what's called black life in reductive ways. The political significance of the book is that for frederick douglas to understand what it is to value the love offered by that enslaved woman, harriet bailey.
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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