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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 did black music help to form in Britain as Gilroy describes it?

2. How does Gilroy characterize the pluralistic camp in black artistic circles?

3. What does Gilroy say about the Enlightenment notion of universality?

4. How does Gilroy suggest we think about the history of slavery?

5. What kind of political community does Gilroy say results from black musical society?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is double consciousness?

2. What group does Gilroy say his book focuses on?

3. What does Gilroy use as opposition to the essential blackness some critics advocate?

4. What symbol does Gilroy use to symbolize the black Atlantic?

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

6. Why is Martin Robison Delany important to Gilroy?

7. What can music accomplish as Gilroy describes it?

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

9. What does the search for black roots indicate to Gilroy?

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

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

Evaluate the proposition that race has been superseded by the more modern experience, shared across races, of power and powerlessness in terms of capital and labor. Which is to say that powerless poor people have more in common than people of the same race but different classes.

Essay Topic 3

Who are Gilroy's opponents, and what are their views? How is Gilroy's book a form of resistance to their ideas? What are the stakes these intellectuals are contesting, and how do they hope to win them?

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