Paul Gilroy

Race and culture in postmodernity

Bibliographic Data

ID2160631
AuthorsPaul Gilroy
Year1999
Volume28
Issue2
Pages183-197
Publication date1999-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomy and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03085149900000002
OpenAlexW2171646324
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited3

This short piece invites reconsideration of the impact of modern raciology on the formation of the academic humanities. In the light of that all too easily forgoten connection, it asks what place the memory of the Nazi period should now enjoy in contemporary scholarly work oriented by its opposition to fraternalist and populist ultra-nationalism. The memory of the Third Reich can be recovered in a number of different ways not all of which are alive to the relationship between anti-Nazi resistance and the dynamic opposition to colonial power that succeeded it. In conclusion, the cosmopolitan and humanist sensibilities articulated by some of the Nazis' colonial prisoner of war are put forward as a resource for contemporary thinking about 'race', difference and multi-culture

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Humanism · Modernity · Nationalism · Nazism · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Postmodernity · Sociology · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · History · Law

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