在以非洲种族为基础的种族,乃至流散研究领域中,很少有学者能够超越吉尔罗伊。这得益于他在伯明翰文化研究中心学习时曾追随斯图亚特·霍尔对种族问题的研究的经历,加之其拥有黑人血统的关系。吉尔罗伊总是以黑人研究为基础从更加广阔的背景中思考种族和流散问题,因此其思想总是呈现出一种宏观的、全球化的特点。其思想的核心是反二元对立的本质主义,在此基础上,吉尔罗伊致力于将黑人种族融入英国主流历史、反对种族主义,认为其是种族不平等的重要根源,同时在当今的全球化背景下,他提倡一种超越肤色界限的无种族状态,或者也是其所说的“行星人文主义”或“张扬的世界主义”。从时间上来划分,其思想的发展大致可以归类是继承式研究、创新式的扩大研究和持续性研究3个阶段,这3个阶段之间是一种继承和发展的关系。 Few scholars have been able to surpass Gilroy in race-based ethnicity in Africa, and even in the field of disseminated research. This is due to his experience of pursuing Stuart Hall’s study of racial issues while studying at the Birmingham Center for Cultural Studies, coupled with his relationship with black lineages. Based on black studies, Gilroy always considered race and dispersal issues from a broader context, so his thinking always showed a macroscopic and globalized characteristic. Based on this, Gilroy endeavored to integrate black ethnicity into the mainstream British history and opposed racism as an important source of ethnic inequality. At the same time, in today’s world In his context, he advocates a race-free state that transcends the boundaries of skin color, or what it calls “planetary humanism” or “cosmopolitanism.” Divided from the time, the development of its ideas can be roughly classified as inheritance research, innovative expansion of research and sustainable research in three stages, these three stages is a relationship between inheritance and development.