Showing posts with label Paul Gilroy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Gilroy. Show all posts

Monday, August 09, 2021

"An Untimely Figure"

"His ideas don't correspond to the vogueish pieties of identity politics or even cutting-edge studies of race. He is that most intellectually unfashionable thing, a humanist. And despite his insistence on understanding the importance of race, he has paradoxically spent much of his life encouraging people to work towards something radical, even utopian: moving beyond the idea of race altogether."

At The Guardian, Yohann Koshy profiles Paul Gilroy.