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

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 representative of the race's potential, black elites...

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Main Author: Gaines, Kevin Kelly
Format: EBOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: The University of North Carolina Press 2012
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