Against Race

Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line

Paul Gilroy

    Introduction

    I Racial Observance, Nationalism, and Humanism

    1. The Crisis of "Race" and Raciology

    2. Modernity and Infrahumanity

    3. Identity, Belonging, and the Critique of Pure Sameness

    II Fascism, Embodiment, and Revolutionary Conservatism

    4. Hitler Wore Khakis: Icons, Propaganda, and Aesthetic Politics

    5. "After the Love Has Gone": Biopolitics and the Decay of the Black Public Sphere

    6. The Tyrannies of Unanimism

    III Black to the Future

    7. "All about the Benjamins": Multicultural Blackness--Corporate, Commercial, and Oppositional

    8. "Race," Cosmopolitanism, and Catastrophe

    9. "Third Stone from the Sun": Planetary Humanism and Strategic Universalism

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index

  • Cover: Against Race
  • A photo of the author

Author photo: Vron Ware

Paul Gilroy holds the Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory at the London School of Economics.