Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Publisher's description: A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American min...

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Main Author: Gates, Henry Louis, Jr (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Antislavery/antislave
  • Backlash : the white resistance to black Reconstruction
  • The old Negro : race, science, literature, and the birth of Jim Crow
  • Chains of being : the black body and the white mind
  • Framing blackness : Sambo art and the visual rhetoric of white supremacy
  • The United States of race : mass-producing stereotypes and fear
  • The new Negro : redeeming the race from the redeemers
  • Reframing race : enter the new Negro
  • Epilogue.