The Black Atlantic
Modernity and Double Consciousness
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PAUL GILROYContents
Preface &
1 The Black Atlantic asa Counterculture of Modernity 1
V2. Masters, Mistresses, Slaves, andthe Antinomies of
Modernity a
| “Jewels Brought from Bondage”: Black Music and the
| Politics of Authenticity n
|B) “Cheer the Weary Traveller": W. BB. Du Bois,
| Germany, and the Politics of (Dis)placement m2
| 5 “Without the Consolation of Tears”: Richard Wright,
| Brance and the Ambivalence of Community 146
"Nota Story to Past On": Living Memory andthe
‘Slave Sublime 1
| Notes | 2s
| Acknowledgements a
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