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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. Where does Gilroy say modern black politics is located in relation to Western civilization?
2. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?
3. What cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?
4. What does Gilroy say people become after witnessing black music?
5. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?
Short Essay Questions
1. What has music done for black culture in Gilroy's account?
2. What does the search for black roots indicate to Gilroy?
3. What role did music play in slaves' lives according to Gilroy?
4. Why is Martin Robison Delany important to Gilroy?
5. Where does Gilroy say we should look in order to see the reality of black experience?
6. What symbol does Gilroy use to symbolize the black Atlantic?
7. What is double consciousness?
8. Why is it odd, in Gilroy's opinion, that debates over modernity have ignored music?
9. What critique does Gilroy make of the concepts that governed race and ethnicity when he wrote The Black Atlantic?
10. What is the problem with a black identity rooted in skin color for Gilroy?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Where does black cultural legitimacy come from? The academy or the ghetto? Africa or America? Where does Gilroy claim his legitimacy comes from? How does he counter claims that would challenge his legitimacy?
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