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Paul Gilroy (born 16 February 1956) is an English sociologist and
cultural studies Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the political dynamics of contemporary culture (including popular culture) and its historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers generally investigate how cultural practices re ...
scholar who is the founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at
University College, London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget =  ...
(UCL). Gilroy is the 2019 winner of the €660,000
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, for "his outstanding contributions to a number of academic fields, including
cultural studies Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the political dynamics of contemporary culture (including popular culture) and its historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers generally investigate how cultural practices re ...
,
critical race studies Critical race theory (CRT) is a cross-disciplinary examination, by social movement, social and Civil and political rights, civil-rights scholars and activists, of how law in the United States, laws, social and political movements, and media sh ...
, sociology, history,
anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...
and African-American studies".


Biography


Early life

Gilroy was born on 16 February 1956 in the
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to a Guyanese mother, novelist
Beryl Gilroy Beryl Agatha Gilroy (''née'' Answick; 30 August 1924 – 4 April 2001) was a Guyanese educator, novelist, ethno-psychotherapist, and poet. ''The Guardian'' described her as "one of Britain's most significant post-war Caribbean migrants." She emi ...
, and an English father, Patrick, who was a scientist. He has a sister, Darla. He was educated at
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and obtained his bachelor's degree at the
University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...
in 1978. He moved to
Birmingham University , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...
, where he completed his PhD in 1986.


Career

Gilroy is a scholar of
cultural studies Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the political dynamics of contemporary culture (including popular culture) and its historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers generally investigate how cultural practices re ...
and black Atlantic diasporic culture with interests in the "myriad manifestations of
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culture". He is the author of ''
There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack ''There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation'' is a 1987 non-fiction book written by British academic Paul Gilroy. Overview In the book, Gilroy examines the racial politics of the United Kingdom Th ...
'' (1987), ''Small Acts'' (1993), ''
The Black Atlantic ''The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness'' is a 1993 history book about a distinct black Atlantic culture that incorporated elements from African, American, British, and Caribbean cultures. It was written by Paul Gilroy and was ...
'' (1993), ''Between Camps'' (2000; also published as ''Against Race'' in the United States), and ''After Empire'' (2004; published as ''Postcolonial Melancholia'' in the United States), among other works. Gilroy was also co-author of ''The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 1970s Britain'' (1982), a path-breaking, collectively produced volume published under the imprint of the
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at
Birmingham University , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...
, where he was a doctoral student working with the Jamaican intellectual Stuart Hall. Other members of the group include
Valerie Amos Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos, (born 13 March 1954) is a British Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Before he ...
,
Hazel Carby Hazel Vivian Carby (born 15 January 1948 in Okehampton, Devon) is Professor Emerita of African American Studies and of American Studies. She served as Charles C & Dorathea S Dilley Professor of African American Studies & American Studies at Yal ...
and
Pratibha Parmar Pratibha Parmar is a British writer and filmmaker. She has made feminist documentaries such as '' Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth'' and '' My Name is Andrea'' about Andrea Dworkin. Early life Parmar was born in Nairobi, Kenya to Indian parents and ...
. Gilroy taught at
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,
Essex University The University of Essex is a public university, public research university in Essex, England. Established by royal charter in 1965, Essex is one of the original plate glass university, plate glass universities. Essex's shield consists of the an ...
, and then for many years at
Goldsmiths, University of London Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wor ...
, before taking up a tenured post in the US at
Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
, where he was the chair of the Department of African American Studies and Charlotte Marian Saden Professor of Sociology and African American Studies. He was the first holder of the
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Professorship in Social Theory at the
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before he joined
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in September 2012. Gilroy worked for the
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for several years in the 1980s before becoming an academic. During that period, he was associated with the weekly
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''
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'' (where he was a contributing editor between 1982 and 1984) and ''
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'' (where he had a regular column from 1988 to 1991).Paul Gilroy Curriculum Vitae.
Other publications for which he wrote during this period include ''
New Musical Express ''New Musical Express'' (''NME'') is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie', the NME would become a magazine that ended up as a f ...
'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. Gilroy is known as a path-breaking scholar and historian of the music of the black Atlantic
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, as a commentator on the politics of race, nation and
racism Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism ...
in the UK, and as an archaeologist of the literary and cultural lives of blacks in the western hemisphere. According to the US ''
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education ''The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education'' is a former academic journal, now an online magazine, for African Americans working in academia in the United States. The journal was established as a quarterly in 1993 by Theodore Cross, a "champio ...
'' he has been consistently among the most frequently cited black scholars in the humanities and social sciences. He held the top position in the humanities rankings in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Gilroy holds
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from the
Goldsmiths University of London Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wor ...
, the
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2016, the
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, and the
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. In Autumn 2009 he served as
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Visiting Professor at the Centre for Humanities,
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. Gilroy was awarded a 50th Anniversary Fellowship of Sussex University in 2012. In 2014 he was elected a
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, the United Kingdom's
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for the humanities and social sciences. In the same year, he was elected Fellow of the
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. He was elected an international honorary member of the
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in April 2018. In 2020, Gilroy became the founding director of
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's Sarah Parker Remond Centre (formerly the Centre for the Study of Racism & Racialisation), named in honour of the transatlantic abolitionist and women's rights activist.


Personal life

Gilroy is married to writer, photographer and academic
Vron Ware Vron Ware is a British academic and visiting professor at the Gender Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was previously a Professor at Kingston University editor of ''Searchlight'' magazine from 1981 to 1983, a ...
. The couple live in
north London North London is the northern part of London, England, north of the River Thames. It extends from Clerkenwell and Finsbury, on the edge of the City of London financial district, to Greater London's boundary with Hertfordshire. The term ''nort ...
, and have two children, Marcus and Cora.


''The Black Atlantic''


Summary

Gilroy's 1993 book ''The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness'' marks a turning point in the study of diasporas. Applying a cultural studies approach, he provides a study of African intellectual history and its cultural construction. Moving away from all cultural forms that could be deemed ethnic absolutism, Gilroy offers the concept of the black Atlantic as a space of transnational cultural construction. In his book, Gilroy makes the peoples who suffered from the
Atlantic slave trade The Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, or Euro-American slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and i ...
the emblem of his new concept of diasporic peoples. This new concept breaks with the traditional diasporic model based on the idea that diasporic people are separated by a communal source or origin, offering a second model that privileges hybridity. Gilroy's theme of
double consciousness Double consciousness is the internal conflict experienced by subordinated or colonized groups in an oppressive society. The term and the idea were first published in W. E. B. Du Bois's autoethnographic work, ''The Souls of Black Folk'' in 1903 ...
involves black Atlantic striving to be both European and black through their relationship to the land of their birth and their ethnic political constituency being absolutely transformed. Rather than encapsulating the African-American tradition within national borders, Gilroy recognizes the actual significance of European and African travels of many African-American writers. To prove his point, he re-reads the works of African-American intellectuals against the background of a trans-Atlantic context. Gilroy's concept of the black Atlantic fundamentally disrupts contemporary forms of cultural nationalism and reopens the field of African-American studies by enlarging the field's interpretive framework. Gilroy offers a corrective to traditional notions of culture as rooted in a particular nation or history, suggesting instead an analytic that foregrounds movement and exchange. In an effort to disabuse scholars of cultural studies and cultural historians in the UK and the US from assuming a "pure" racial, ethnic, and class-based politics/political history, Gilroy traces two legacies of political and cultural thought that emerge through cross-pollination. Gilroy critiques New Leftists for assuming a purely
nationalist Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ...
identity that in fact was influenced by various black histories and modes of exchange. Gilroy's initial claim seeks to trouble the assumptive logics of a "pure" western history (canon), offering instead a way to think these histories as mutually constituted and always already entangled. Gilroy uses the
transatlantic slave trade The Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, or Euro-American slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and i ...
to highlight the influence of "routes" on black identity. He uses the image of a ship to represent how authentic black culture is composed of cultural exchanges since the slave trade stifled blacks' ability to connect to a homeland. He claims that there was a cultural exchange as well as a commodity exchange that defines the transatlantic slave trade and thus black culture. In addition, he discusses how black people and black cultures were written out of European countries and cultures via the effort to equate white people with institutions and cultures, which causes whiteness to be conflated with Europe as a country and black people being ignored and excluded. This causes blackness and "Europeanness" to be viewed as separate entities lacking symbiosis. Whiteness and Europeanness even went so far as to create a culture such that blackness becomes a threat to the sanctity of these European cultures. An example of how Gilroy and his concepts in ''The Black Atlantic'' directly affected a specific field of African-American studies is its role in defining and influencing the shift between the political black British movement of the 1960 and '70s to the 1980 and '90s. Gilroy came to reject outright the working-class movements of the 1970s and '80s on the basis that the system and logic behind the movements were fundamentally flawed as a result of their roots in the way of thinking that not only ignored race but also the trans-Atlantic experience as an integral part of the black experience and history. This argument is expanded upon in one of his previous co-authored books, ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1983), which was supported by the (now closed)
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Center or centre may refer to: Mathematics *Center (geometry), the middle of an object * Center (algebra), used in various contexts ** Center (group theory) ** Center (ring theory) * Graph center, the set of all vertices of minimum eccentricity ...
of the University of Birmingham in the UK. ''The Black Atlantic'' received an
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in 1994. The book has subsequently been translated into Italian, French, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. The influence of the study is generally accepted to be profound, though academics continue to debate in exactly what form its greatest significance may lie. The theoretical use of the ocean as a liminal space alternative to the authority of nation-states has been highly generative in diasporic studies, in spite of Gilroy's own desire to avoid such conflations. The image of water and migration has been taken up as well by later scholars of the black diaspora, including Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, Isabel Hofmeyr, and Stephanie E. Smallwood, who expand Gilroy's theorizations by engaging questions of
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ness, transnationality, and the
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.


Academic responses and criticisms

Among the academic responses to Gilroy's black Atlantic thesis are: ''Africadian Atlantic: Essays on George Elliott Clarke'' (2012), edited by
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, and
George Elliott Clarke George Elliott Clarke, (born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015 and as the 2016–2017 Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. His work is known large ...
's "Must All Blackness Be American? Locating Canada in Borden's 'Tightrope Time,' or Nationalizing Gilroy's ''The Black Atlantic''" (1996, ''Canadian Ethnic Studies'' 28.3). Additionally, scholar Tsiti Ella Jaji discusses Gilroy and his conceptualization of the black Atlantic as the "inspiration and provocation" for her 2014 book ''Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity''. While finding Gilroy's discussion of music in the black diaspora compelling and inspiring, Jaji has two main points of contention that provoked her to critique and to dissect his theories. Her first critique of Gilroy's theories are that they neglect continental Africa in this space of music production, creating an understanding of black diaspora that is exclusive of Africa. Jaji's second point is that Gilroy does not examine the role that gender plays in black music production. Jaji discusses how Gilroy's ''The Black Atlantic'', while enriching the collective understanding of trans-Atlantic black cultural exchange, devalues the incorporation of gender into his analysis; she uses as an example chapter one of ''The Black Atlantic'', in which Gilroy says: "Black survival depends upon forging a new means to build alliances above and beyond petty issues like language, religion, skin colour, and to a lesser extent gender." Further, Gilroy does not include female voices in his discussion of music and trans-Atlantic black cultural exchange, which Jaji argues contributes to a gendered understanding of
pan-Africanism Pan-Africanism is a worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all Indigenous and diaspora peoples of African ancestry. Based on a common goal dating back to the Atlantic slave trade, the movement exte ...
that is largely male-dominated. An additional academic response to Gilroy's work is by scholar
Julian Henriques Julian Henriques (born 1951) is a British filmmaker, researcher, writer and academic. He is a professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, in the Media and Communications Department, with his particular research interests being culture, technolo ...
. Gilroy concludes the first chapter of his book ''The Black Atlantic Modernity and Double Consciousness'' with the quote: "social self-creation through labour is not the centre-piece of emancipatory hopes....Artistic expression...therefore becomes the means towards both individual self-fashioning and communal liberation" (Gilroy, 40). This quote about the liberatory potential of art as a transatlantic cultural product exemplifies Gilroy's argument that for black people, forms of culture take on a heightened meaning in light of black persons being excluded from representation in the traditional political apparatus. As such, Gilroy argues that culture is the mode through which black persons should aspire to liberation. In working to understand black culture, Gilroy asks readers to focus on routes of movement of black persons and black cultural production, as opposed to focusing on roots of origin. However, Henriques argues that Gilroy's focus on routes in themselves is limiting to one's understanding of the black diaspora. Henriques introduces the idea of "propagation of vibration", described as the diffusion of a spectrum of frequencies through a variety of media, in his essay, "Sonic Diaspora, Vibrations, and Rhythm: Thinking Through the Sounding of the Jamaican Dancehall Session" (Henriques, 221). This theory of the propagation of vibrations provides language to understand the diffusion of vibrations beyond the material (accessible) sonic and musical fields or the physical circulation of objects that can be tracked through Gilroy's routes. Henriques described vibrations as having corporeal (kinetic) and ethereal (meaning based) qualities that can be diffused similarly to the accessible fields, and argues that Gilroy's routes language does not encapsulate these frequencies of vibrations (224–226).


Selected awards

* 2005: Honorary doctorate from
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,
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* 2012: 50th Anniversary Fellowship of
University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...
* 2014: Elected a
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* 2016: Honorary doctorate from the
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* 2017: Honorary doctorate from University of Sussex * 2018: Elected an international honorary member of the
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* 2019:
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Bibliography

* 1982: (co-author) ''The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in '70s Britain'', London: Hutchinson/Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies * 1987: '' There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation'', London: Hutchinson * 1993: '' The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness'', London:
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* 1993: ''Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures'', London:
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* 1995: (with Iain Chambers) ''Hendrix, hip-hop e l’interruzione del pensiero'', Costa & Nolan. * 2000: ''Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line'', The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press * 2000: ''Between Camps: Nations, Culture and the Allure of Race'', London:
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* 2000: ''Without Guarantees: Essays in Honour of Stuart Hall'' (co-edited with Angela McRobbie and
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), London: Verso * 2004: ''After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture'', London: Routledge * 2007: ''Black Britain - A Photographic History'' (with an introduction by Stuart Hall), London: Saqi * 2009: (co-author) ''Kuroi Taiseiyo to Chishikijin no Genzai'' (The Black Atlantic and Intellectuals Today), Shoraisha * 2010: ''Darker Than Blue: On The Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture'', Harvard University Press


References


Further reading

*McNeil, Daniel
''Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs''
New York: Routledge, 2010. *Nishikawa, Kinohi. "Paul Gilroy", in
Hans Ostrom Hans Ansgar Ostrom (born January 29, 1954) is an American professor, writer, editor, and scholar. Ostrom is a professor of African American Studies and English the University of Puget Sound (1983–present), where he teaches courses on African-A ...
and J. David Macey, Jr (eds), ''The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature''. 5 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 630–32.


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* ''The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education'


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