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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 Gilroy say about the realities of black experiences on both sides of the Atlantic?

2. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?

3. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?

4. What does Gilroy say about music's status in culture?

5. What is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What has music done for black culture in Gilroy's account?

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

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

6. What role did music play in slaves' lives according to Gilroy?

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

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

9. What value does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition has for those who use it?

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

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

Write a character sketch of the author based on the style and content of his writing. What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

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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