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There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation

1987 · by Paul Gilroy

Study, grown out of his Birmingham doctorate, of racism in post-war Britain: “race” is made in politics and culture, British nationalism defines Black people as outside the nation, and Black expressive culture, from music to social movements, answers it.

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