The Black Atlantic

Modernity and Double-Consciousness

Paul Gilroy

  • Winner of the 1994 American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation

Preface

1. The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity

2. Masters, Mistresses, Slaves, and the Antinomies of Modernity

3. "Jewels Brought from Bondage"; Black Music and the Politics of Authenticity

4. "Cheer the Weary Traveller": W. E. B. Du Bois, Germany, and the Politics of (Dis)placement

5. "Without the Consolation of Tears": Richard Wright, France, and the Ambivalence of Community

6. "Not a Story to Pass On": Living Memory and the Slave Sublime

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: The Black Atlantic
  • A photo of the author

Paul Gilroy holds the Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory at the London School of Economics.