Not alms but opportunity :: the Urban League & the politics of racial uplift, 1910-1950 /

Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Touré Reed explores the ideology and policies of the Urban League's activities in New York and Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. Reed argues that racial uplift in the Urban League reflected many of the...

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Main Author: Reed, Touré F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Touré Reed explores the ideology and policies of the Urban League's activities in New York and Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. Reed argues that racial uplift in the Urban League reflected many of the class biases pervading contemporaneous social reform movements, resulting in an emphasis on behavioral, rather than structural, remedies to the disadvantages faced by Afro-Americans. Reed traces the Urban League's ideology to the famed Chicago School of Sociology. The Chicago School offered Leaguers power.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 254 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index.
ISBN:9780807888544
0807888540
9781469605708
1469605708

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