Gilroy does see the need "to get black cultural expressions, analyses, and histories taken seriously in academic circles" though he is wary of a "race relations" approach which cordons them off into "sociology" (5-6)
"much of the precious intellectual legacy claimed by African-American intellectuals as the substance of their particularity is in fact only partly their absolute ethnic property"
> from Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993)
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