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Author Gilroy, Paul, 1956-

Title The black Atlantic : modernity and double consciousness / Paul Gilroy.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993.

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 Moore Stacks  CB235 .G55 1993    Available  ---
Description xi, 261 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-252) and index.
Contents The black Atlantic as a counterculture of modernity -- Masters, mistresses, slaves, and the antinomies of modernity -- "Jewels brought from bondage" : black music and the politics of authenticity -- "Cheer the weary traveller" : W.E.B. Du Bois, Germany, and the politics of (dis)placement -- "Without the consolation of tears" : Richard Wright, France, and the ambivalence of community -- "Not a story to pass on" : living memory and the slave sublime.
Subject Black people -- Intellectual life.
Black people -- Intellectual life.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
Afrocentrism.
Afrocentrism.
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