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Paul Gilroy — The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
ISBN 9781839766121. Condition: New.
Paul Gilroy’s field-defining 1993 study argues that Black culture cannot be contained by nation or ethnicity. Tracing the ships, sounds and ideas that crossed between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Britain, he reads figures from Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois to Richard Wright alongside Black music to show how modernity was shaped by slavery and its afterlives, and how ‘double consciousness’ became a creative, transnational force.
Part of the Black Curatorial reading room — books from our Frieze London 2026 presentation and the wider Caribbean and Black British canon. Enquiries: aliyah@blackcuratorial.co
Paul Gilroy — The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
ISBN 9781839766121. Condition: New.
Paul Gilroy’s field-defining 1993 study argues that Black culture cannot be contained by nation or ethnicity. Tracing the ships, sounds and ideas that crossed between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Britain, he reads figures from Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois to Richard Wright alongside Black music to show how modernity was shaped by slavery and its afterlives, and how ‘double consciousness’ became a creative, transnational force.
Part of the Black Curatorial reading room — books from our Frieze London 2026 presentation and the wider Caribbean and Black British canon. Enquiries: aliyah@blackcuratorial.co