‘... We got to get over before we go under ...’ Fragments for a history of black vernacular neoliberalism
New Formations - ISSN 0950-2378
Volume 2013 Number 80-81
‘... We got to get over before we go under ...’ Fragments for a history of black vernacular neoliberalism
Paul Gilroy pages -
Abstract
Through a discussion of Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad books, the motivational primers of Robert Greene and other similar material produced in the UK by a legion black nationalists turned consultants, trainers, mentors and motivators, this paper asks some difficult questions about the relationship between black and migrant communities and the neoliberal thematics of uplift, self-responsibility and self-improvement. These topics have a long history that spans the interest of nineteenth-century African Americans in Samuel Smiles and the hustling ethic affirmed in several generations of Hip hop.
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Paul Gilroy (2013) ‘... We got to get over before we go under ...’ Fragments for a history of black vernacular neoliberalism, New Formations, 2013(80-81 ), -