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Conceiving Contempt and Pity: Race and Progressive Era Americans - David W. Southern The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform, 1900–1917. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2005. xi + 240 pp. $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-88295-234-X. - Jonathan Spiro. Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant. Burlington: University of Vermont Press, 2009. xvi + 512 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58465-715-6.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 November 2010
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1 DuBois, W. E. B., The Souls of Black Folk (Chicago, 1903)Google Scholar; DuBois, W. E. B., “The Perpetual Dilemma,” Crisis, Apr. 1917, 270–71.Google Scholar
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6 Walter Weyl quoted in Southern, Progressive Era and Race, 62; Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk.