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The Politics of Self-Identity in by Bridget Harris Tsemo I do not want [black men] to imbibe the dangerous draught which has intoxicated their white brothers of this Western world and sent them raving madmen, struggling for life at the expense of their fellows in the stockmarkets and wheat-pits of our great cities. --Paul Laurence Dunbar Marlon B. Ross observes that in Paul Laurence Dunbar's final and most acclaimed novel, The Sport of the Gods (1902), when the Hamilton family moves from the rural South to the urban space of New York City, the "freer atmosphere" of the city "only increases the seductiveness of moral/sexual license without effecting any concomitant political, economic, or social reform" (Ross 145). Ross suggests that the Hamiltons are heavily influenced by the sexual enticement of the city and therefore unable to participate in the social task of racial uplift. To further complicate the situation, Ross engages Kevin Gaines's disturbing picture of blacks already in the North, whose "movement [from the South] to the North had worsened the black elite's already considerable sense of dislocation. Themselves ill-equipped to assist the migrants, they were largely incapable of viewing the migration positively. . . ." As
The Southern Literary Journal – University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 21, 2009
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