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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 are yearning and mourning associated with in black culture according to Gilroy?
2. What did DuBois believe in that Richard Wright did not believe in according to Gilroy?
3. What kinds of frameworks was DuBois trying to look beyond?
4. Where was W. E. B. DuBois born?
5. Why should blacks openly recognize the debt of their cultural language?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the importance of the theme of love and loss in black popular arts, according to Gilroy?
2. How does Gilroy say the discussion he has had in 'Black Atlantic' is likely to help in the twenty-first century, when Western culture faces challenges over resources and sustainability?
3. What does Gilroy say DuBois reminded blacks?
4. What was James Weldon Johnson's contribution to Gilroy's book?
5. What was DuBois' relation with blackness?
6. What does Gilroy say is the black relation with time?
7. What origin legitimized Richard Wright in readers' eyes?
8. What did DuBois argue was the only way to deal with the brutality of modern civilized life in the South?
9. Describe the role of the concept of tradition in the black Atlantic.
10. What does Gilroy have to say about violence in American culture?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What cultural forms embody black culture? Popular culture or literature? Is it embodied by black political action, or by the daily lives of ordinary black workers? Is it embodied in a history? How does Gilroy address this question? What conclusion does he come to?
Essay Topic 2
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?
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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