| Author Name: | Gilroy, Paul |
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| Topic: | Blackface Minstrelsy |
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In this book the author argues that race-thinking has distorted the finest promises of modern democracy. The author shows that fascism was the principal political innovation of the twentieth century and that the people today still use the same devices as the Nazis in making films and advertisements. The author examines the ways in which media and commodity culture have become preeminent in our lives in the years since the 1960s and especially in the 1980s with the rise of hip-hop and other militancies. With this trend, he contends, much that was wonderful about black culture has been sacrificed in the service of corporate interests and new forms of cultural expression tied to visual technologies. He argues that the triumph of the image spells death to politics and reduces people to mere symbols.