CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Gajic, Stevan |
|---|---|
| Title | Defining the Color Line Debates and Dilemmas of the African American Intellectual Elite in the Years around the Emancipation |
| Summary | In this dissertation I discuss the ideas and dilemmas of four outstanding 19th century African American thinkers: Martin Delany, Alexander Crummell, Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois. The dissertation addresses the question: Why was the 19th century emancipation of African-Americans not enough for constituting their identity? I do this by examining two main problems African American intellectuals engaged with, at the time around the American Civil War, and in the post-emancipation era. First, the shaping the African American identity between the duty and loyalty to the fatherland (which these man defined in different ways, as Africa or as America) and, second, the nature of African American identity and its membership in the wider US society (through the ideas of the post-emancipation integration of African Americans into the US society). |
| Supervisor | Michael Mieller |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/gajic_stevan.pdf |
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