Not Alms But Opportunity: The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950

by Toure F. Reed

Book Overview

Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Toure Reed explores the ideology and policies of the national, New York, and Chicago Urban Leagues 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807859028
• ISBN13: 9780807859025
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"