The Resource Not Alms but Opportunity : The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950, (electronic book)
Not Alms but Opportunity : The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950, (electronic book)
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The item Not Alms but Opportunity : The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950, (electronic book) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Isbn
- 9780807832233
- Label
- Not Alms but Opportunity : The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950
- Title
- Not Alms but Opportunity : The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950
- Subject
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- African Americans -- Illinois | Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- African Americans -- New York (State) | New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Illinois -- Chicago
- National Urban League -- History -- 20th century
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- New York (State) -- New York
- Social classes -- Illinois | Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- Social classes -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- EBZ
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- Reed, Touré F
- LC call number
- E
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- National Urban League
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Social classes
- Social classes
- African Americans
- African Americans
- New York (N.Y.)
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Illinois
- New York (State)
- Label
- Not Alms but Opportunity : The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950, (electronic book)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ebs608828e
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9780807832233
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (EBZ)ebs608828e
- Label
- Not Alms but Opportunity : The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950, (electronic book)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ebs608828e
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9780807832233
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (EBZ)ebs608828e
Subject
- African Americans -- Illinois | Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- African Americans -- New York (State) | New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Illinois -- Chicago
- National Urban League -- History -- 20th century
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- New York (State) -- New York
- Social classes -- Illinois | Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- Social classes -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
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