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= Racial Uplift = Racial Uplift, can be defined as an African American concept which entails individuals within the middle class to guide race to equality. This is a term that is traced back to the late 1800's. Black elite s during this time such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and African American musicians such as Florence Price are known to be significant contributors. This concept is displayed by African Americans as a mean of assisting themselves to reach new heights in life. During the beginnings of racial uplift, hymns and negro spirituals played a vital role in shaping the spiritual culture of African Americans. Although these musical selections are mainly prevalent inside the church, today, gospel music is utilized for some portion of the uplifting sense. Aside from music, African American leaders used concepts such as double consciousness to describe the behaviors of blacks and how they perceive themselves through the eyes of others. In the means of racial uplift, double consciousness is a struggle of racial uplift because it leaves the opportunity to believe that their is a superior race, which would look at you differently due to your skin.

The talented tenth is one of the primary concepts of racial uplift for African Americans. Du Bois was one of the black elites that caused the talented tenth to become prevalent and of importance. Struggling to make racial uplift become relevant, the black leaders that were sent out to be representatives of their community don’t always return.

Eugenics and its correlation with racial uplift
Eugenics is seen throughout the time of racial uplift due to the control that was placed on people of African American decent. Eugenics does play a role in how racial uplift is viewed which includes how people are made to think, look, and act a certain way in order to be accepted. Some African Americans, both then and now, are said to take on roles which are prevailing in other cultures, making them alter the way in which they choose to live their life. In W.E.B Du Bois's novel titled The Souls of Black Folk he discusses his view on how African American are perceived both to themselves and to the ones whom are around them, with the term double consciousness. Du Bois himself is known to many as the father of Pan-Africanism, which has been seen around the world and is the idea of all people from African decent becoming unified.

Other African American authors such as Nathan Hare have written novels which attest to eugenics not only being seen in the African American community, but also its correlation with racial uplift. In Nathan Hare's The Black Anglo-Saxons, he writes about how African Americans have began conforming to another race and there cultural identity appears to be diminished. Although they are now seen as a higher class, these individuals have refused to step up and guide other African Americans to where they are, which is the concept of racial uplift. This novel like many other Nathan Hare novels, has caused African Americans to realize that not everyone who succeeds in life is willing to come back and give to their community that they were rooted in. Nathan Hare himself, has written many books which deal with the concept of racial uplift and how African Americans operate in a society where eugenics exist.

The effects of the Beauty Culture on Racial Uplift
With racial uplift being seen as a "self-help" for black people, there were also other aspects which focused on what African Americans were able to go out and receive an education The beauty culture played a big role in who was sent out as a representative for the African American community. In W.E.B. Du Bois's novel The Talented Tenth, he uses this same idea to state how hair type, color, and attitude determined who was capable of receiving an education and could return to help the black community with lifting one another up. If the “wrong” individuals are sent out, then the community is looked at as doomed due to that individuals incapabulity to preform at a certain level. Touching on eugenics, many African Americans were unaware of how the way they look, their manorisms, and how they interact with those around them effected their capability to be well educated. With the color of a persons skin being the first physical feature people seen during this time, a rise of colorism took place in racial uplifting.