It offers a message of racial uplift, faith, and education.

Chesnutt "follows the call for racial uplift and ventures out into what to him is a cultural wilderness".

She is concerned with propriety and racial uplift.

Irene lives in Harlem, where she identifies as black and commits herself to racial uplift.

They return to North Carolina to fight for "racial uplift."

There are also messages of racial uplift but these are secondary to the melodrama to be found in both novels.

When black policy types let themselves dream about racial uplift, they dream about getting to average.

Set in central and southern Florida in the early 20th century, the novel was initially poorly received for its rejection of racial uplift literary prescriptions.

It is a tale of racial uplift in which education and integrity persevere over racism and despair.

A blatant elitism infested the movement for racial uplift from the outset.