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There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
AuthorPaul Gilroy
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SubjectRacial politics in the United Kingdom
Published1987
Media typePrint
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'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack': The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation is a 1987 non-fiction book written by Paul Gilroy.[1][2][3][4][5]

This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race seriously, Paul Gilroy caused immediate uproar when this book was first published in 1987. A brilliant and explosive exploration of racial discourses, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack provided a powerful new direction for race relations in Britain. PAUL GILROY is one of the most incisive thinkers of his generation. He is best known for There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack (1987), a controversial exploration of anti-black racism in Britain. Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm. Edition: 2nd New edition. This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race seriously, Paul Gilroy caused immediate uproar when this book was first published in 1987. A brilliant and explosive exploration of racial discourses, There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack provided a powerful new direction for race relations in.

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Gilroy examines the racial politics of the United Kingdom. In particular, he discusses racism in the United Kingdom. This work of Gilroy's remains quite controversial to many for his views on racial politics in the United Kingdom and for his views on race and ethnicity.[5]

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  1. ^'There Ain’t no Black in the Union Jack!, The University of Chicago Press.
  2. '^There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack': The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation at Google Books.
  3. ^Prescod, Colin (1 April 1988), 'Book reviews : 'There Ain't no Black in the Union Jack': the cultural politics of race and nation', Race and Class, Volume 29, issue 4, pp. 97–100.
  4. ^Lamont, Michèle, and Élot Laurent (5 June 2006), 'Opinion: Identity: France shows its true colors', The New York Times,
  5. ^ abCheyette, Bryan (11 December 1993). 'BOOK REVIEW / Still ain't no black in the Union Jack: 'The Black Atlantic''. The Independent. Retrieved 30 March 2017.


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“It is possible and necessary to approach Britain's colonial history by more satisfactory methodological routes. Its racial subjects need a more complex genealogy than those debates allow. Industrial decline has been intertwined with technological change, with immigration and settlement, with ideological racism and spatial segregation along economic and cultural lines. We need to grasp how their coming together took place in a desperate setting which nonetheless allowed black communities over several generations to be recognised as political actors: they were irreducible to their class positions because racism entered into the multi-modal processes in which classes were being constituted. It helps to appreciate that this historical predicament was overdetermined by Britain's painful loss of Empire and, that the country's communities of the strange and alien are still sometimes at risk of being engulfed by the profound cultural and psychological consequences of decline which is evident on many levels: economic and material as well as cultural and psychological.”
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“Things had been different when Garveyism and Ethiopianism rather than afro-centrism and occultism set the tone. To contain modernity, to appreciate its colonial constitution and to criticise its reliance on racialised governmental codes all required finding an autonomous space outside it. A desire to exist elsewhere supplied the governing impulse. It was captured in compelling forms in the period's best songs of longing and flight, like Bunny Wailer's anthem ‘Dreamland’ 5. However, there is no longer any uncontaminated, pastoral or romantic location to which opposition and dissent might fly, and so, a new culture of consolation has been fashioned in which being against this tainted modernity has come to mean being before it. Comparable investments in the restorative power of the pseudo-archaic occur elsewhere. They help to make Harry Potter's world attractive and are routine features of much ‘new age’ thinking. They govern the quest for a repudiation of modernity that is shared by the various versions of Islam which have largely eclipsed Ethiopianism as the principal spiritual resource and wellspring of critique among young black Europeans. Their desire to find an exit from consumerism's triumphant phantasmagoria reveals them to be bereft, adrift without the guidance they would have absorbed, more indirectly than formally, from the national liberation movements of the cold war period and the struggles for both civil and human rights with which they were connected. Instead, an America-centred, consumer-oriented culture of blackness has become prominent. In this post-colonial setting, it conditions the dreams of many young Britons, irrespective of their ancestral origins or physical appearance. This brash and celebratory imperial formation is barely embarrassed by the geo-political fault-line that re-divides the world, opposing the overdeveloped north to the suffering south. That barrier provides the defining element in a new topography of global power which is making heavy demands upon the overwhelmingly national character of civil society and ideal of national citizenship. It is clear that the versions of black politics that belonged to the west/rest polarity will not adapt easily to this new configuration.”
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