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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?

2. What is the common memory for British blacks in Gilroy's opinion?

3. What does Gilroy say modern historical conditions require of race concepts?

4. Who were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' predecessors?

5. What was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gilroy define the consciousness of the slave?

2. How does the language of sexuality distract people from their racial identity in Gilroy's account?

3. What value does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition has for those who use it?

4. How does the uniqueness of the black Atlantic experience affect views of race according to Gilroy?

5. What is nationalism's role in the conceptualization of race, according to Gilroy?

6. What criticism does Gilroy make of Enlightenment universalist claims?

7. What is double consciousness?

8. How does Gilroy propose the concept of the black Atlantic should be used?

9. What view does Gilroy say we should take of black experiences?

10. What does Gilroy say British audiences expected from Jimi Hendrix?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an evaluative review of The Black Atlantic. What is this book's place in culture? What are its uses? Who is its audience? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 2

Gilroy proposes black music as a model of a cultural form that gives people courage to live with the contradictions and negotiations of racial life. In what way is Gilroy's book itself musical?

Essay Topic 3

At the end of The Black Atlantic Paul Gilroy describes the challenges facing Western culture in the future. How is race related to these challenges, and do you think that this broadening of scope is a fitting gesture to close on? Does it cement Gilroy's narrative, or does it step aside from it?

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