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Uplifting the race : Black leadership, politics, and culture in the twentieth century

Author: Kevin Kelly Gaines
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kevin Kelly Gaines
ISBN: 0807822396 9780807822395 0807845434 9780807845431
OCLC Number: 32130940
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Brown University, 1991.
Description: xxvii, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: uplift, dissemblance, double-consciousness, and the ideological dimensions of class --
1. From freedom to slavery: Uplift and the decline of Black politics --
2. Living Jim Crow: The Atlanta Riot and unmasking "social equality" --
3. Figuring class with race: Uplift, minstrelsy, migration, and the "Negro problem" --
4. The crisis of Negro intellectuals: William H. Ferris and the Black nationalist thought --
5. The woman and labor questions in racial uplift ideology: Anna Julia Cooper's Voices from the south --
6. Urban pathology and the limits of social research: W.E.B. Du Bois's The Philadelphia Negro --
7. Between uplift and minstrelsy: Paul Lawrence Dunbar, James D. Corrothers, and the ambivalent response to urbanization, 1900-1916 --
8. The everyday struggles and contradictions of uplift ideology in the life and writings of Alice Dunbar-Nelson --
9. Hubert H. Harrison, new Negro militancy, and the limits of radialized leadership, 1914-1954.
Responsibility: Kevin K. Gaines.

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