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Martin Delany, Frederick Douglas, and the Politics of Representative Identity.(Review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 19991001
Author:Verhoeven, W.M

Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity. By ROBERT S. LEVINE. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. xiv + 314 pp. $45 (paperbound $18.95).

The publication in 1852 of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was a major catalyst in the contemporary black nationalist debate. The novel's stormy reception amongst blacks revealed a deep and fundamental rift in African-American culture between those in favour of integration and assimilation and those favouring separatism and emigration. The opposing sides of the debate ...

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