Martin R. Delany: A Documentary ReaderRobert S. Levine Univ of North Carolina Press, 20 nov 2003 - 520 pagina's Martin R. Delany (1812-85) has been called the "Father of Black Nationalism," but his extraordinary career also encompassed the roles of abolitionist, physician, editor, explorer, politician, army officer, novelist, and political theorist. Despite his enormous influence in the nineteenth century, and his continuing influence on black nationalist thought in the twentieth century, Delany has remained a relatively obscure figure in U.S. culture, generally portrayed as a radical separatist at odds with the more integrationist Frederick Douglass. This pioneering documentary collection offers readers a chance to discover, or rediscover, Delany in all his complexity. Through nearly 100 documents--approximately two-thirds of which have not been reprinted since their initial nineteenth-century publications--it traces the full sweep of his fascinating career. Included are selections from Delany's early journalism, his emigrationist writings of the 1850s, his 1859-62 novel, Blake (one of the first African American novels published in the United States), and his later writings on Reconstruction. Incisive and shrewd, angry and witty, Delany's words influenced key nineteenth-century debates on race and nation, addressing issues that remain pressing in our own time. |
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... position—a race consciousness that is always aggressively separatist— black nationalism can embrace a range of sometimes competing and conflicting options—uplift, separatism, emigrationism, patriotism, racial anger, integrationism, and ...
... position—a race consciousness that is always aggressively separatist— black nationalism can embrace a range of sometimes competing and conflicting options—uplift, separatism, emigrationism, patriotism, racial anger, integrationism, and ...
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... position,” Delany declared at the 1854 National Emigration Convention.14 Throughout his career, Delany sought to “make an issue, create an event” and to do so in solidarity with black people of the United States. The extraordinary ...
... position,” Delany declared at the 1854 National Emigration Convention.14 Throughout his career, Delany sought to “make an issue, create an event” and to do so in solidarity with black people of the United States. The extraordinary ...
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... positions similar to Douglass's, he remained less optimistic about the possibilities of a sudden millennial flowering ... position. Unlike Douglass, he regularly advocated black violence as a legitimate response to white violence. Delany ...
... positions similar to Douglass's, he remained less optimistic about the possibilities of a sudden millennial flowering ... position. Unlike Douglass, he regularly advocated black violence as a legitimate response to white violence. Delany ...
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... position similar to Delany's in “Political Destiny” on the importance of blacks remaining in the Americas, James T. Holly and William Wells Brown claimed that Haiti made better sense for African American emigration. Delany contested ...
... position similar to Delany's in “Political Destiny” on the importance of blacks remaining in the Americas, James T. Holly and William Wells Brown claimed that Haiti made better sense for African American emigration. Delany contested ...
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... position in the body politic.” Even in the race-conscious “Political Destiny,” Delany implies a belief that racial identity is more a matter of politics than biology, for when he declares that in a world consisting of whites and peoples ...
... position in the body politic.” Even in the race-conscious “Political Destiny,” Delany implies a belief that racial identity is more a matter of politics than biology, for when he declares that in a world consisting of whites and peoples ...
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The North Star | 69 |
Debating Black Emigration | 181 |
Africa | 315 |
Civil War and Reconstruction | 377 |
The Republic of Liberia | 459 |
Chronology | 487 |
Selected Bibliography | 491 |
Index | 495 |
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