Uplifting the Race
Gaines, Kevin K.![Uplifting the Race](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/134/1343851/CHSBZCOP031343851.jpg)
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 espoused an ethos of self-help and service to the black masses and distinguished themselves from the black majority as agents of civilization, hence th...