Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century by Kevin K. Gaines
Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century

Kevin K. Gaines

Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century

Kevin K. Gaines

312 pages first pub 1996 (view editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Amidst the violent racism prevalent at the turn of the twentieth century, African American cultural elites, struggling to articulate a positive black identity, developed a middle-class ideology of racial uplift. Insisting that they were truly repr...

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