| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Tunde Adeleke. Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robinson Delany. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2003. Pp. xxxiii, 274. $42.00
A simplistic version of African-American history is often taught as a series of pairs of ideologically balanced leaders: accommodationist Booker T. Washington versus activist W.E.B. Du Bois at the beginning of the twentieth century and integrationist Martin Luther King, Jr. versus separatist Malcolm X in the 1960s. Regarding the nineteenth century, the cautious advocacy of Frederick Douglass is often contrasted with the uncompromising militancy of his contemporary, Martin Robinson Delany.	1
A free-born black abolitionist, the highest ranking black Union army officer, and a South Carolina Reconstruction politician, Delany already is the subject of thoughtful biographies by Victor Ullman, Dorothy Sterling, and Frank [Frances] Rollin. He is also a central figure in influential studies of antebellum black nationalism by Cyril Griffith, Floyd Miller, Wilson J. Moses, Nell Painter, and Sterling Stuckey. The latest study of Delany's public career by Nigerian scholar Tunde Adeleke is not a full-scale biography but rather a detailed indictment of that older historiographical tradition that the author labels "instrumentalism." According to Adeleke, the scholarly pioneers of modern African-American Studies were representatives of the desire in the 1960s and 1970s to use history to effect social change. They wrote to fill a strong demand for a new black history that was designed to inspire readers to enlist in the struggle against the nation's long racist history.	. . .

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