Without regard to race : the other Martin Robison Delany / Tunde Adeleke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adeleke, Tunde.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Biography.

African Americans.

African American intellectuals--Biography.

African American intellectuals.

African American abolitionists--Biography.

African American abolitionists.

African American soldiers--Biography.

African American soldiers.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.

Pan-Africanism--History--19th century.

Pan-Africanism.

Black nationalism--United States--History--19th century.

Black nationalism.

Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885.

Delany, Martin Robison.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Before Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois lifted the banner for black liberation and independence, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was at the forefront. He was the first black appointed as a combat major in the Union army during the Civil War. He was a pan-Africanist and a crusader for black freedom and equality in the nineteenth century. For the past three decades, however, this precursor has been regarded only as a militant black nationalist and ""racial essentialist."" To his discredit, his ideas, programs, and accomplishments have been maintained as models of uncompromising militancy. Cl

Contents:

Black biography : from instrumentalism to functionalism

Delany historiography

First integrationist phase : moral suasion

Second integrationist phase, 1863-1874

Third integrationist phase, 1875-1877

Final years, 1878-1885.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-267) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-59863-9

9786613911087

1-60473-049-8

1-4237-3214-6

OCLC:

191934190