In 2013, the University of Cambridge organized a colloquium between two well-known black intellectuals: one British ( Paul Gilroy ) and another American ( Cornel West ). The theme of the colloquium was Race and politics . As soon as they started, the British rapporteur expressed - in a casual tone - his wish that they could talk about those issues without referring only to the USA. The comment proved as clever as it was futile: in the hour and a half that followed, West was unable to speak of race and politics outside the framework of the American experience. If history was discussed, he referred to the plantations of the South , the Jim Crow , Malcolm X

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