Fred D'Aguiar on Tate Liverpool's Afro Modern (Guardian Unlimited)

Black Atlantic culture – spanning Africa, the Americas and Europe – has had a profound influence on artists, from Picasso to Chris Ofili. Fred D’Aguiar celebrates the power of art to debunk historical stereotypes Paul Gilroy has a lot to answer for. Not since Edward Said’s Orientalism has a book – Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic – generated such intellectual curiosity and exerted so wide an …