The abama presidency felt like a miracle at the time. Has its impact been subsumed by history, or is there fu legacy? Jane gordon and i wrote a bookall divine warning, reading disaster in the modern age. It was published during abama's first term. And what we pointed out is that not only obama, but it was being done with mandella to disarm the importance of what we need for real social change.
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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