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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. Who were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' predecessors?

2. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?

3. Who first defined the notion of the master-slave dialectic?

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

5. Why is this idea insufficient to modern reality, according to Gilroy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is double consciousness?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What are we, the readers, supposed to do as a result of reading Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic? Does Gilroy propose plans of action, or is he merely informing us? How political is the act of reading The Black Atlantic?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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