Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-189) and index.
Martin R. Delany issues the call and sets the template with Blake; or, The huts of America -- Double consciousness and racial uplift in Sutton Griggs's Imperium in imperio -- Pauline E. Hopkins calls for gender inclusion in Of one blood -- W.E.B. Du Bois, the folk, and racial uplift in The quest of the silver fleece -- Imagining global unity: W.E.B. Du Bois rethinks talented tenth in Dark princess