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 esposed an ethos of self-help and service to the black masses and distinguished themselves from the black majority as agents of civilization; hence the phrase 'uplifting the race.'Gaines, Kevin K. is the author of 'Uplifting the Race Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century', published 1996 under ISBN 9780807822395 and ISBN 0807822396.