The Black Atlantic: Modernity & Double Consciousness [videorecording].

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Gilroy, Paul

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary.

Local Subjects:

Documentary.

Genre:

Documentary.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 40 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Edition:

Widescreen ed.

Place of Publication:

[United States] : Media Education Foundation, 2025.

Language Note:

English audio; English subtitles.

System Details:

DVD.

Summary:

British historian, sociologist, and cultural studies scholar Paul Gilroy, one of the preeminent theorists of race and racism, revisits the key themes he explored in his book, a study of diasporas and Black cultural identity. In the film, Gilroy argues against both essentialist and anti-essentialist views of blackness, rejecting ethnocentrism and nationalism on the one hand and ahistorical postmodernism on the other. In their place, he offers the transnational concept of the "Black Atlantic," a fusion of Black cultures that transcends nationality and ethnicity while remaining deeply rooted in experience and memory. The result is a vision of modern Black cultural identity that's a hybrid and highly contingent product of a shared diasporic history , a history that begins with the slave trade, develops into a distinctly modern transatlantic culture, and is shaped as much by the "routes" Black people travelled and endured as the geographical "roots" they inhabited.

Participant:

Paul Gilroy.

Credits:

Director, Sut Jhally.

Notes:

07/30/2025

ISBN:

9781944024932 :

Publisher Number:

17690505