Paul Gilroy: Postcolonial Theory

Paul Gilroy is an English sociologist and cultural studies scholar who is the founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at University College, London. Gilroy was one of the founding figures of a remapped global history that embedded the movement of racialized subjects and traded goods into accounts of the world as we know it; he has reshaped debates on racism, nationalism and multiculturalism. Paul Gilroy is a public intellectual who addresses the key issues of our time, from policing and race politics to popular culture. Gilroy's postcolonial theory adresses the idea that coloniail discourses continues to dictate and inform contempary attitudes towards race and ethnicity even in today postcolinail day and age. The ideology that civilisation constructs racial heorarchiies and sets up opinary oppositions built up individualism creating a notion of 'Us versus Them." The phrase 'post-colonial' is often seen as problematic as it suggests the influence of the era or colonialism is over, however a majority of postcolonialists suggest that here is still a lack of black images in the media today which creates an imbalance in our society.