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Critical Reflection

“ Uplifting the Race”
Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century

Uplifting the Race is a rather confusing yet stimulating study that goes over the rising idea and interests in the evolution of "racial uplift" ideology from the turn and through the twentieth century. In the first part of the book, Gaines analyzes the black elite obsession with racial uplift ideology and the tensions it produced among black intellectuals. Gaines argues for the most part that during the nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology was part of a "liberation theology" as stated by Gaines, which stressed a group struggle for freedom and social advancement.

In this particular piece by Gaines, offers a close analysis of the racial, class, color, and gender dimensions of a very complex subject, yet it is also a provoking study. As stated in many of our classroom discussion that, it is a difficult read that employs complicated language and a fragmented......

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