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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. The first mode of double consciousness is particular to whom?
2. What are blacks asked to remember instead of slavery?
3. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?
4. What horrified Richard Wright in Gilroy's account?
5. How does Gilroy characterize the third mode of double consciousness?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were Richard Wright's politics?
2. What distinction does Gilroy say Richard Wright holds?
3. What does Gilroy say politics did for black culture?
4. What idea was undermined, in Richard Wright's mind, by the violence of modern American culture?
5. What origin legitimized Richard Wright in readers' eyes?
6. What is the relationship between black and Jewish cultures, as Gilroy defines it?
7. What was DuBois' relation with blackness?
8. What was James Weldon Johnson's contribution to Gilroy's book?
9. What tension did politics create in black culture?
10. What, in Gilroy's account, was Richard Wright's thinking about racial identity?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate your own reading of The Black Atlantic--did you resist it or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
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
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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