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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 effect of collaboration according to Gilroy?

2. Who was Martin Robison Delany?

3. What language does Gilroy say sometimes dominates the language of racial emancipation in black music?

4. What does the notion of the Black Atlantic produce according to Gilroy?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Gilroy describe the modern self and how does this affect our narratives of history?

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

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

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

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

7. What is the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' contribution to Gilroy's book?

8. How does Gilroy define the hermeneutics of the black Atlantic?

9. What is double consciousness?

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

Gilroy uses writers more than anyone else for his evidence of cultural trends regarding race. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using literature for cultural analysis? What does it exclude? What does it capture that couldn't be captured anywhere else?

Essay Topic 3

How do you think Gilroy would say that black experience in the black Atlantic differs from the Irish or the Catholics in America who are trying to keep a particular ethnic identity alive in a homogenizing culture that turns everyone into Americans insofar as they relinquish their ethnicity?

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