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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 is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?

2. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?

3. What do black artists sometimes focus on, to their detriment, according to Gilroy?

4. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?

5. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What critique does Gilroy make of the concepts that governed race and ethnicity when he wrote The Black Atlantic?

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

5. What is double consciousness?

6. What does Gilroy say most theorists of modernity focus on?

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

8. What are the two perspectives around which black artistic debate is centered, according to Gilroy?

9. How does Gilroy describe the black experience in England?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Where does black cultural legitimacy come from? The academy or the ghetto? Africa or America? Where does Gilroy claim his legitimacy comes from? How does he counter claims that would challenge his legitimacy?

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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