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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. Which factor did NOT divide black subjectivity according to Gilroy's account of Richard Wright's thought?
2. What does Gilroy say about racial traditions?
3. What does The Souls of Black Folk say to white people according to Gilroy?
4. What did Richard Wright want to deprive white people of?
5. What primary experience shaped violence in the black community according to Gilroy?
Short Essay Questions
1. What distinction does Gilroy say Richard Wright holds?
2. In what way was capitalist culture a kind of crisis in itself, Wright?
3. How does Gilroy say the discussion he has had in 'Black Atlantic' is likely to help in the twenty-first century, when Western culture faces challenges over resources and sustainability?
4. What does Gilroy say politics did for black culture?
5. What tension did politics create in black culture?
6. What view of the black Atlantic does Paul Gilroy leave us with at the end of the book?
7. What was Richard Wright's feeling about white culture?
8. What relation does Gilroy draw between the black Atlantic and the Holocaust?
9. Why was Wright criticized for his characterizations, according to Gilroy?
10. How does Gilroy say DuBois described black music?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate the proposition that race has been superseded by the more modern experience, shared across races, of power and powerlessness in terms of capital and labor. Which is to say that powerless poor people have more in common than people of the same race but different classes.
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
Is Gilroy writing about the black experience, or the modern experience? If the modern self is a fragmented self, do all individuals with self-awareness experience the same double-consciousness? How does Gilroy avoid this universalizing argument, which erases blackness as it universalizes aspects of black consciousness.
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