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 the 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 Lawrence 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.
