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Gaines, Kevin Kelly.
Uplifting the race: Black leadership, politics, and culture in the twentieth century / Kevin K. Gaines.
p. cm.
Based on the author’s thesis (Ph.D.)—Brown University, 1991.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-8078-2239-6 (cloth: alk. paper).
—ISBN 0-8078-4543-4 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Afro-Americans—Cultural assimilation—History—20th century. 2. Afro-American leadership—History—20th century. 3. Afro-Americans—Politics and government. I. Title.
EI85.86.G35 1995
973′.0496073—dc20 95-7956
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An earlier version of part of Chapter 7 appeared as “Assimilationist Minstrelsy as Racial Uplift Ideology: James D. Corrothers’s Literary Quest for Black Leadership,” American Quarterly 45, no. 3 (September 1993): 341—69.
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