Louis: This is a really interesting and provocative book. It seems to me to be a position book, if i could call it that. There must be always a moment in which even the author, the thinker, must bring herself, his self or their self into question. And this is an act of humility that also exemplifies the ethics and the responsibility to truth. Louis: Maybe i was acutely er sensitive toe the kind of continuity between some of the things that you are articulating in this book and some of her own very distinctive and idiosyncratic commentaries on the world. h which are profound in ways that are ted to your appetite for profundity, but never, never, ever
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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