The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
Paul Gilroy
Black identity as a ship in motion, not a flag over one homeland.
Gilroy proposed the "Black Atlantic" as a single transnational culture forged by the slave trade and its aftermath, linking Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. He criticized both narrow nationalism and Afrocentric essentialism, arguing that Black modernity was hybrid and diasporic rather than rooted in one homeland. The book reshaped cultural studies and debates over race, ethnicity, and belonging.
Its legacy. A central reference in diaspora studies.
- Author
- Paul Gilroy
- First published
- 1993
- Genre
- Cultural criticism
- Theme
- Pan-Africanism, Race and the Diaspora
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