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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 DuBois often reminded blacks?

2. How does Gilroy turn away from Richard Wright at the end of The Black Atlantic?

3. Where does black culture draw its vocabulary of exile according to Gilroy?

4. How does Gilroy say DuBois arrived at his identity?

5. What kinds of frameworks was DuBois trying to look beyond?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tension did politics create in black culture?

2. Why do Jews and blacks both resist the comparison of slavery and the Holocaust, as Gilroy describes it?

3. Describe the pan-Africanism movement which Richard Wright was part of.

4. What are the three modes of thinking, seeing and being which DuBois says are the basis of double consciousness?

5. 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?

6. In what way was capitalist culture a kind of crisis in itself, Wright?

7. How does Gilroy characterize the ontological state of slavery?

8. What was Richard Wright's feeling about white culture?

9. How does Gilroy say DuBois described black music?

10. What does Gilroy say politics did for black culture?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

What is the relationship between race and nationality according to Gilroy? What was it originally and what has it become? How has it changed over time? What changed it?

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