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Book Review
Canada and the United States
| Wilson Jeremiah Moses. Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey . New York: Cambridge University Press. 2004. Pp. xviii, 308. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.00.
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| Since publication of The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850–1925 (1978), Wilson Jeremiah Moses has defined the contours of black nationalism. In the last decade, however, a revisionist scholarship has begun to reshape the black nationalist landscape, questioning Moses's perspectives and no doubt provoking this response. In his new book, Moses addresses loopholes in his earlier studies. Focusing on five key black leaders—Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey—Moses offers a more balanced assessment of their contributions. In his view, admirers and detractors of these leaders have focused too narrowly on constructed images designed to advance ideologically skewed and misleading perceptions. |
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