Paul Gilroy, a professor at King’s College in London, has been Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory at the London School of Economics (2005-2012) and, at Yale University, Charlotte Marian Saden Professor of African American Studies and Sociology ( 1999-2005). He is the author, among other works, of 'Against Race. Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line '(2000),' Black Britain. A Pictorial History '(2007) and' Darker Than Blue. On The Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Cultures' (2009). In Spanish he has published 'After the Empire. Melancholy or culture of conviviality? ' (2008, original 2004).