[lit-ideas] Re: The Island Called Gotham

I found the Stuart Hall interview was thinking of,
it's worth reading it all, but here's the part about
London and New York

"If he has optimism it is that such a dialogue keeps
going on even while cultures are squaring up to each
other. That, he believes, can begin to happen in
places like this, or in film and literature, or at
street level outside. London, for him, remains the
model of this tolerant debate, 'or at least the best
one I know. The fact is this city will never go back
to looking like it did when I arrived here in 1950.
You can have as many border police and thought police
as you want, as many of Gordon Brown's and David
Cameron's definitions of Britishness. It is a more
genuine multicultural society than New York, where
there are not the same black/white worlds. And what
gives me hope is that there are still many, many
people here who try to live it that way.'"

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,,2175203,00.html





Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK


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