Contents

PREFACE
The Intersections of Racial Liberalism and Racial Uplift Ideology

A NOTE ON USAGE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION
Uplift, Dissemblance, Double-Consciousness, and the Ideological Dimensions of Class

1. FROM FREEDOM TO SLAVERY
Uplift and the Decline of Black Politics

2. LIVING JIM CROW
The Atlanta Riot and Unmasking “Social Equality”

3. FIGURING CLASS WITH RACE
Uplift, Minstrelsy, Migration, and “the Negro Problem

4. THE CRISIS OF NEGRO INTELLECTUALS
William H. Ferris and Black Nationalist Thought

5. THE WOMAN AND LABOR QUESTIONS IN RACIAL UPLIFT IDEOLOGY
Anna Julia Cooper’s Voices from the South

6. URBAN PATHOLOGY AND THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Philadelphia Negro

7. BETWEEN UPLIFT AND MINSTRELSY
Paul Laurence Dunbar, James D. Corrothers, and the Ambivalent Response to Urbanization, 1900—1916

8. THE EVERYDAY STRUGGLES AND CONTRADICTIONS OF UPLIFT IDEOLOGY IN THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON

9. HUBERT H. HARRISON, NEW NEGRO MILITANCY, AND THE LIMITS OF RACIALIZED LEADERSHIP, 1914—1954

NOTES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX