Uplifting the Race by Kevin K Gaines

Uplifting the Race by Kevin K Gaines

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This study argues that in its emphasis on class distinctions and patriarchal authority, the racial uplift ideology of middle-class African Americans was tied to pejorative notions of racial pathology, and was therefore limited as a force against white prejudice.

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Uplifting the Race by Kevin K Gaines

This study argues that in its emphasis on class distinctions and patriarchal authority, the racial uplift ideology of middle-class African Americans was tied to pejorative notions of racial pathology, and was therefore limited as a force against white prejudice.
Kevin K. Gaines is director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and professor of history at the University of Michigan. He is author of the award-winning Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture during the Twentieth Century, also from The University of North Carolina Press.
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ISBN 13 9780807845431
ISBN 10 0807845434
Title Uplifting the Race
Author Kevin K Gaines
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Year published 1996-02-28
Number of pages 342
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