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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 the black person's perpetual searching indicate to Gilroy?

2. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?

3. What is the effect of collaboration according to Gilroy?

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

5. What image did English fans have of what a black performer should be like?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Where does Gilroy say we should look in order to see the reality of black experience?

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

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 3

Black intellectuals have often encountered the difficulty that on one hand they need to show their learning, to prove their legitimacy to white intellectuals, but on the other, too much intellectualism is supposed to alienate them from their blackness. How does Gilroy navigate this treacherous water?

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