Racial uplift is a term within the African-American community that motivates educated black people to be responsible in the "lifting"[clarification needed] of the race.
Eugenics play a role in how racial uplift is viewed, which includes how people are made to think, look, and create community.
Du Bois's book, The Souls of Black Folk, he discusses his view on how African Americans are perceived both to themselves and to the ones who are around them, with the term double consciousness.
In Nathan Hare's The Black Anglo-Saxons, he writes about how African Americans had begun to conform with other races and abandon their own cultural identity.
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.
With racial uplift being seen as "self-help" for black people, other aspects focused on which African Americans were able to receive an education.