【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める!】<p>Offering a fresh look at interracial cooperation in the formative years of Jim Crow, <em>The Uplift Generation</em> 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ーwhose genesis ranged from private one-on-one communications to large-scale interracial organizationsーshaped Progressivism...