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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. How does Gilroy describe slavery?
2. When was the journal 'Presence Africaine' published?
3. Where does black culture draw its vocabulary of exile according to Gilroy?
4. How did Richard Wright want to present blacks in his books?
5. What is the role of tradition in black culture according to Gilroy?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was DuBois' relation with blackness?
2. Why do Jews and blacks both resist the comparison of slavery and the Holocaust, as Gilroy describes it?
3. Describe the role of the concept of tradition in the black Atlantic.
4. What does Gilroy have to say about violence in American culture?
5. What relation does Gilroy draw between the black Atlantic and the Holocaust?
6. How does Gilroy characterize the ontological state of slavery?
7. What did DuBois conclude from his observations of black culture?
8. What distinction does Gilroy say Richard Wright holds?
9. How does Gilroy say DuBois described black music?
10. How does blackness function in DuBois' writing, as Gilroy describes it?
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
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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