Postcolonial Melancholia

Name: Postcolonial Melancholia
Author: Paul Gilroy

by Paul Gilroy

Analysis of loss, melancholia, and ambivalence in postcolonial black experience and thought

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Paul Gilroy

British-American cultural theorist whose The Black Atlantic challenged both black nationalism and white cultural supremacy by tracing the hybrid, diasporic culture forged between Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Against Race is a passionate argument for abandoning racial categories. He is the foremost theorist of the Black diaspora.

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The Black AtlanticHistory of modernity and black culture across Atlantic diaspora connecting Africa, Europe, Americas
Against RaceCritique of racial essentialism arguing for hybrid identities in multicultural societies
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