"the ship" is one of Gilroy's "chronotopes"
specifically, "the first of the novel chronotopes presupposed by my attempts to rethink modernity via the history of the black Atlantic and the African diaspora into the western hemisphere"
additionally, Gilroy quotes this provocative though from Peter Linebaugh: "the ship remained perhaps the most important conduit of Pan-African communication before the appearance of the long-playing record"
see Linebaugh's "All The Atlantic Mountains Shook"
> from Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993)
> tagged with #transportation, #technology, #africa, #race, #communication
> created May 21, 2026 at 2:09:15 PM
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