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Between Camps [Elektronische Ressource] : Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race

Gilroy, Paul,i1956-

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

413 p.

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978-0-415-34365-7

MS 3300

 

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978-0-203-63958-0

In this provocative book, now reissued with a new introduction, Paul Gilroy contends that race-thinking has distorted the finest promises of modern democracy. He compels us to see that fascism was the principal political innovation of the twentieth century - and that its power to seduce did not die in a bunker in Berlin.Between Camps addresses questions such as:* Why do we still divide humanity into different identity groups based on skin colour? * Did all the good done by the Civil Rights Movement and the decolonization of the Third World have such little lasting...