The Uplift Generation: Cooperation Across the Color Line in Early Twentieth-Century Virginia Contributor(s): Brooks, Clayton McClure (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813939496 ISBN-13: 9780813939490 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | United States - 20th Century - Social Science | Minority Studies |
Dewey: 975.504 |
LCCN: 2016032563 |
Series: American South |
Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.16" W x 9.28" (1.21 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
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Publisher Description: Offering a fresh look at interracial cooperation in the formative years of Jim Crow, The Uplift Generation examines how segregation was molded, not by Virginia's white political power structure alone but rather through the work of a generation of Virginian reformers across the color line who from 1900 to 1930 engaged in interracial reforms. This group of paternalists and uplift reformers believed interracial cooperation was necessary to stem violence and promote progress. Although these activists had varying motivations, they worked together because their Progressive aims meshed, finding themselves unlikely allies. Unlike later incarnations of interracialism, this early work did not challenge segregation but rather helped to build and define it, intentionally and otherwise. The initiatives--whose genesis ranged from private one-on-one communications to large-scale interracial organizations--shaped Progressivism, the emergence of a race-conscious public welfare system, and the eventual parameters of Jim Crow in Virginia. Through extensive use of personal papers, newspapers, and other archival materials, The Uplift Generation shares the stories of these fascinating--yet often forgotten--reformers and the complicated and sometimes troubling consequences of their work. |