ENGLISH 2M06 Chapter Notes - Chapter Gilroy Reading: Deindustrialization, Consumerism
28 Mar 2018
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The specific traditions of public interaction that were originally products of the agency of slaves are being surpassed. They are declining now that post slave cultures are being recomposed with digital media, deindustrialization, and the growth of consumerism. The cultural achievements provoked by slave life provided more than the contested core of american identity: they supplied a platform for youth cultures, popular cultures, and styles of dissent far from their places of origin. Today they are fractured by division>north/south, developed/underdeveloped. What aspects of gender and sexuality does gilroy emphasize and which does he perhaps underplay in making this argument: how and why does gilroy model his chapter"s concluding paragraph on walter.
