History lessons
British multiculturalism is under attack. Andy Beckett assesses Paul
Gilroy's timely analysis, After Empire
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1370161,00.html
Saturday December 11, 2004
The Guardian
After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture?
by Paul Gilroy
183pp, Routledge, =A314.99
In modern discussions about Britishness, even among people who do not
get misty about villages and soft green hills, there is often something
missing. Paul Gilroy, in this short, perceptive book, calls it the
"convivial culture": the boisterous everyday interaction of different
races in parts of Britain cities and parts of British life. To Gilroy,
multiculturalism is a description of reality not a liberal dream or
conspiracy, and Britain has developed its own particular version which,
in his hopeful moments, he thinks could fill the gaps left in our
national identity by the end of empire and of global pre-eminence.
Paul Gilroy
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