ABSTRACT
This dialogue took place in New York, where Isaac was working as senior producer for a US television series on gay and lesbian civil rights. The fact of his being invited to creatively shape this innovative TV programme says something about the respect for and interest in Isaac’s work in North America. During Isaac’s stay in New York we met up with Stuart several times as he visited to contribute to panels on Pan-African cinema, cultural studies, etc. It says something about the currency of both their work that Isaac and Stuart have been able to meet in North America almost as regularly as they do in London, even if one of the topics for discussion has been the degree to which America misunderstands and misrepresents what their work is about. The very different structures of racism in Britain (until recently still pursuing its colonial war with the Irish) and the United States (where its colonial relation to its black citizens has never been adequately discussed), would be one of the starting-points for a fuller discussion. What follows here however is a preliminary to a more focused collaboration.
