black atlantic theory

• this is as a direct result of the slave trade, the african diaspora caused by the slave trade has now contructed a transatlantic culture that is simultaneously- African, American, Carribean, British- collectively forming a hybrid known as the 'Black Atlantic Culture'.
• Gilroy's argument states that themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new
• So Gilroy’s ‘black Atlantic’ delineates a distinctively modern, cultural-political space that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but is, rather, a hybrid mix of all of these at once.
• The Black Atlantic concept- the mixing of different identities to create new meanings- can be valid in the analysis of the video's use of the juxtaposition of different racial identity and histories