Against "syncretism" as such
 

Gilroy 15: "The fractal patterns of cultural and political exchange and transformation that we try and specify through manifestly inadequate theoretical terms like creolisation and syncretism indicate how both ethnicities and political cultures have been made anew in ways that are significant not simply for the peoples of the Caribbean but for Europe, for Africa, especially Liberia and Sierra Leone, and of course, for black America."

> from Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993)

> tagged with #race, #america, #culture, #syncretism

> created May 22, 2026 at 11:42:43 AM


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