...Stephen Knadler “Unsanitized Domestic Allegories” begins the work of recovering the complex history linking Progressive-Era biomedicalization, gender expectations, and ideologies of racial uplift within African American culture. Through a close reading of early-twentieth-century African American...

... Women of the Negro Race” (1901–2), this essay first recovers Hopkins’s ambivalent relation to the compulsory neurotypicality of racial uplift politics. “Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations” then turns to Hopkins’s novel Contending Forces (1900) to foreground how her fiction is interrupted by scenes...

...Laura R. Fisher Racial uplift emerged in the aftermath of Reconstruction as a powerful philosophy of social advancement for African Americans subject to the absolute subordination and disfranchisement of Jim Crow, and it found its greatest institutional expression in the African American college...

... readings of novels about racial passing, despite our acknowledgment that race is performative. The cause I identify here is twofold. First, the ideology of racial uplift and the tena- cious persistence of the one-drop...

..., Historical Processing, and the Videogame Sensorium,” 745–79. Klein, Lauren F. “The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualiza- tion, and James Hemings,” 661–88. Knadler, Stephen. “Unsanitized Domestic Allegories: Biomedical Politics, Racial Uplift, and the African American Woman’s...

...) The mission of racial uplift has a long, rich, but prob- lematic history. Although the idea of racial improvement has been in place since the beginning of the African American literary tradi- tion, writers have constructed...

... the best foot forward for pur- poses of racial uplift. Believing that African Americans from the urban North were the most acceptable exemplars of ‘‘the race’’ and those most likely to further the project of racial uplift, he harbored a hatred for black Southerners. Through his angry outbursts...

... on “Humane Work in the South” demonstrates (70). Even in the work of Black humane-education activists, like Lucy Thurman and Booker T. Washington, humane education had to necessarily wed itself to discourses surrounding racial uplift, as Blackness was viewed as inherently linked to inhumane, cruel behavior...

... analytical frame— what he calls “Jim Crow colonialism”—for expressing the multiple paradoxes of racial uplift and subjection in literature and education policies in the United States and abroad. By bringing the domes- tic emphasis on black education and voting rights...

... of the defamiliarized ‘‘Mother the rhapsodies of the musi- cally hybridized ‘‘Other and the real and unbinding names hiding egotistically behind such racial maxims as ‘‘Uplift During the 1960s, the sign blackness was proposed...

... the play accessible, emotional, and persuasive also sets real limits on how audience members are asked think about personal and social responsibility. Some of these efforts include a focus on the wrongly convicted instead of the guilty, a balance of white and black interviewees in the face of a racially...

... written by a black hair- dresser and social critic illuminate the ways in which the privileging of middle-class reform and racial uplift overshadows the complexity of antebellum black women laborers? How does postslavery trauma continue to feminize black masculinity and masculinize black woman- hood...

... twentieth century frequently promoted racial uplift’s respectability politics, but also tapped into an affective and psychosocial “charisma” that exceeded this assimilative probity. Edwards highlights a twentieth-century archive on the limitations of charismatic leadership. In her second section, she...

... can one be an individual apart from the demands of racial representation (4). The book disrupts politicized readings that tend to interpret African American literature and expressive culture primarily in relation to black freedom struggles, such as abolition, racial uplift, civil rights...

... they produced to visualize their shipping and tourist routes (see fig. 2 )—black laborers, many of them Garveyites, coopted these networks to spread ideas about racial uplift and self-determination and to agitate for better working conditions. Through Garveyism, print culture, and labor migration, the global...

... era, which called for the adoption of bourgeois values like thrift, chastity, and patriarchal familial structures as a means of gaining civil rights. According to Kevin K. Gaines ( 1996 ), racial uplift ultimately failed as a political strategy because it was built on black people’s “unconscious...

... of racial uplift. But more specifically he absorbed the rhetorical parameters of race and desire that belonged to his era’s literary culture in order to revise and redistribute those parameters, using mixed-race identity and experience as antinormative hermeneutics. In doing so, Chesnutt’s novels—especially...

... of Pauline Hopkins’s life and literary career situ- ates the turn-of-the-century writer at the intersection of New England his- tory and African American women’s literary production. Tracing Hopkins’s obscured origins, this study understands her literary works in terms of the his- tory of racial uplift...

... adequate critical attention. Topics include his strategies of self- presentation, masculinity, relationship to secular notions of racial uplift, and thoughts on economic development. 634 American Literature Mencken’s America. Ed. S. T. Joshi. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2004. xx, 244 pp. Cloth...

... hinges upon her fidelity to the Franklin mode of social uplift. I want to complicate this reading, however, by suggesting that while Franklin’s iconicity as Founding Father effaces the historically racialized and gendered character of American social and economic mobility, Petry’s use of Franklin...