Paul Gilroy

Professor Paul Gilroy joined Kings College, London in September 2012 having previously been Giddens Professor of Social Theory at the London School of Economics (2005-2012), Charlotte Marian Saden Professor of African American Studies and Sociology at Yale (1999-2005) and Professor of Cultural Studies and Sociology at Goldsmiths College (1995-1999). He is author of Between Camps (published in the USA as Against Race) and The Black Atlantic.

Paul Gilroy in search of a not necessarily safe starting point…

A conversation about university education today that rearranges some of the deckchairs on the Titanic.

By Paul Gilroy and Rosemary Bechler

/ 1 May 2016

Husby and territorial stigma in Sweden

This statement appeared at the beginning of June in the Swedish broadsheet SVD, calling for a public investigation into the recent uprisings in Swedish suburbs.

By Paul Gilroy and Les Back

/ 10 Jun 2013

A hundred years of bombing: what has it done to us?

November 2011 marks the centenary of a world-historic event. An Italian pilot, Guilio Cavotti dropped the first bombs from an aeroplane on to the oasis of Tagiura outside Tripoli. The development of aerial bombardment was more than just a military revolution. It changed both war and peace. openDem

By Paul Gilroy and Les Back

/ 18 Oct 2011

Melancholia and multiculture

In the first of a series tracing the strange career of multiculturalism, Paul Gilroy leading thinker on race and racism, and currently chair of African American studies at Yale University

By Paul Gilroy

/ 2 Aug 2004

England's fantasy

It is 12 January 2003 and US president Bush has rallied his troops for what he calls “The first war of the 21st century”. What is your view of this crisis, where, briefly, do you stand? This is the question we are putting to people around the world, especially those with their own public reputatio

By Paul Gilroy

/ 12 Jan 2003

Raise your eyes

This is a delicate moment. Last Septembers attacks threw the political forms of globalisation into stark relief, at a time when, thus far, only its cultural and economic consequences

By Paul Gilroy

/ 10 Sep 2002

Neither Jews nor Germans: where is liberalism taking us?

A shift has taken place in the language of inclusion and exclusion, of citizenship and rights. The talk now is of immigration rather than race. People in Britain are being

By Paul Gilroy

/ 11 Jun 2002

Ali G and the Oscars

The first batch of reparation lawsuits has been initiated in the USA. But more welcome forms of symbolic restitution are also in the offing. The historic triumph of African American

By Paul Gilroy

/ 3 Apr 2002

Diving into the tunnel: the politics of race between old and new worlds

It was in Cuba that concentration camps were first added to the political technologies of colonial modernity, during the Spanish-American war, an episode that ushered in The American Century we

By Paul Gilroy

/ 31 Jan 2002

The American Jihad

Most commentaries on the horrors of 11 September 2001 have been delivered from two positions. The first is a grounded location: the place of immediate rather than media-made spectatorship. Blanketed

By Paul Gilroy

/ 17 Sep 2001