Paul Gilroy

Author of The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness

About the Author

Paul Gilroy holds the Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory at the London School of Economics and is the author of The Black Atlantic and Against Race (both from Harvard).

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Image credit: Paul Gilroy at home in 2019. via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Works by Paul Gilroy

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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness (1993) 602 copies, 1 review

There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack (1987) 241 copies

Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line (2000) 178 copies, 2 reviews

Postcolonial Melancholia (2004) 94 copies, 1 review

Selected Writings on Race and Difference (2021) — Editor — 60 copies

Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures (1994) 56 copies

Black Britain: A Photographic History (2007) 41 copies

Between Camps: Nations, Culture and the Allure of Race (2000) 40 copies, 1 review

After empire : melancholia or convivial culture? (2004) 32 copies

Without Guarantees: In Honour of Stuart Hall (2000) — Editor — 27 copies

Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture (2010) 24 copies

Yinka Shonibare CBE: End of Empire (2021) — Interviewer — 9 copies

Rock Against Racism: Syd Shelton (2016) 5 copies

'Race', Sport and British Society (2001) 3 copies

Problems in Anti-racist Strategy (1987) 2 copies

“The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity” 1 copy

"It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at". In: Small Acts 1 copy

Ord & Bild #5 2016 1 copy

Steve McQueen: Grenfell (2025) 1 copy

Status of Difference: From Epidermalisation to Nano-politics (Critical Urban Studies: Occasional Papers) (1995) 1 copy

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Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance (1997) — Contributor — 95 copies

Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue (2017) — Foreword, some editions — 20 copies

Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass (2022) — Contributor — 11 copies

Early Black British Writing: Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, and Others (2003) — Contributor — 10 copies

Narratives from beyond the UK reggae bassline : the system is sound (2020) — Contributor — 5 copies

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Birthdate: 1956-02-16
Gender: male
Education: University of Birmingham (Ph.D|1986)
University of Sussex (BA|1978)
Occupations: professor (American and English Literature)
Organizations: University College London
Goldsmiths College, University of London
London School of Economics
Yale University
King's College London
Awards and honors: British Academy (Fellow, 2014)
Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 2014)
The Holberg Prize (2019)
American Academy of Arts & Sciences (International Honorary Member, 2018)
Relationships: Ware, Vron (wife)
Gilroy, Beryl (mother)
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Places of residence: London, England, UK
Associated Place (for map): London, England, UK

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stillatim 1,329 reviews

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness by Paul Gilroy

Surely the worst book ever written about a great idea. The chapter on Wright was pretty good, the chapter on Dubois and 'Hegel' possibly the worst I've ever read, mainly because Gilroy seems to have followed the Althusser approach to analysis of philosophical argument, that is, not reading the book (Hegel's Phenomenology) he's talking about. Vastly influential, unreadable and unconvincing- but that central idea was a great one.

Dec 29, 2013

KayDekker 36 reviews

Between camps : nations, cultures and the allure of race by Paul Gilroy

Far too much impenetrable socioese for me to have been able to make much headway with this. Why can't sociologists write to communicate, not to show how much jargon they can parade?

What promised to be a good book, spoiled by fashionableness.

Mar 6, 2009

steve02476 911 reviews

Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line by Paul Gilroy