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A recent NPR review describes the book as a “brilliant” exploration of how the hard-fought gains of African Americans were rolled back by embittered Southern Whites during this era, and how the gains of Reconstruction were systematically erased by the rise of White supremacists—a struggle that continues to this day. This excellent text, augmented by a disturbing collection of late-19th- and early-20th-century racist images, is indispensable for understanding American history.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “A provocative, lucid, and urgent contribution to the study of race in America. . Gates' analysis is predictably brilliant, but he's also just a joy to read.” —NPR   “Harrowing but necessary.” —Time  "A timely chronicle of the battle to define blackness that raged from the Civil War through civil rights . There's a problem loading this menu right now. An essential tour through one of America’s fundamental historical tragedies, Stony the Road is also a story of heroic resistance, as figures such as W. E. B. Previous page of related Sponsored Products. . It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness.
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| ISBN 9780525559542 Unable to add item to List. There's a problem loading this menu right now. It's more of a cultural history of how African-Americans sought to respond to the massive onslaught of white supremacist propaganda in the last 19th and early 20th centuries. . What does it look like? | 551 Minutes —Martha S. Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor at Johns Hopkins University and author of Birthright Citizens“In [Gates’s] signature lucid and compelling approach to history . The new book on the Reconstruction Era by Henry Louis Gates is reviewed by The Nation Magazine.. . In this piercing, haunting study, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chronicles an American tragedy, the story of how white supremacy and Jim Crow became the South’s—and white America’s—brutal answer to Emancipation and Reconstruction. As sobering as this tale is, it also has within it the inspiration that comes with encountering the hopes our ancestors advanced against the longest odds. In our current politics we recognize African-American history—the spot under our country’s rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept. . 46 White supremacy triumphs in this long dark era; it left many casualties along the by-ways of America's worst sins. 110
a fresh, much-needed inquiry into a misunderstood yet urgently relevant era.” — Booklist, starred review, Sign up for news about books, authors, and more from Penguin Random House, Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network. Wells fought to create a counter-narrative, and culture, inside the lion’s mouth. essential . This is a well written and powerful exam of the time following the end of the Civil War.

.orange-text-color {color: #FE971E;} Explore your book, then jump right back to where you left off with Page Flip. But the terror unleashed by white paramilitary groups in the former Confederacy, combined with deteriorating economic conditions and a loss of Northern will, restored “home rule” to the South. .

Lengthening the Reconstruction era, Gates insists, allows Americans to think more deeply about how the African American experience fits into the longer arc of progress and retreat that has shaped the history of American democracy. . The ‘New Negro’ was a citizen who carved out a way forward with brilliance and beauty as expressed in pictures, politics, and prose. 84 | ISBN 9780525559559

. Colorlines is published by Race Forward, a national organization that advances racial justice through research, media and practice. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Visit Amazon's Henry Louis Gates Jr. Starting with the slave experience and extending to the present, Gates unveils the history of the African presence in six Latin American countries—Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru—through art, music, cuisine, dance, politics, and religion, but also the very palpable presence of anti-black racism that has sometimes sought to keep the black cultural presence from view. . . Gates, who is expert at both, catching fish while seeing tides, leaves us with a simple, implicit moral: a long fight for freedom, with too many losses along the way, can be sustained only by a rich and complicated culture. It’s a good thought to hold on to now." Professor Gates’ adult-market book, STONY THE ROAD: The Fall of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow, will be published by Penguin Press and will be on sale April 2, 2019. “ —Kirkus Reviews, starred review“In Stony the Road, Gates demonstrates his chops as a lyrical narrative historian. You must think along with the reading! . Looking for books by Henry Louis Gates Jr.? ), ( Against the steepest of odds, they waged war by other means: countering depictions of black people as ignorant, debased and inhuman with images of a vanguard of educated and upstanding men and women who were talented, cosmopolitan and urbane.”, Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2019. . The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS series, And Still I Rise—a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.

—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Lively . It’s a good thought to hold on to now.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Lively . Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and, And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK, ( 121

In America Behind the Color Line, Professor Gates examined the fortunes of the black population of modern-day America. Wells fought to create a counter-narrative, and culture, inside the lion’s mouth. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. At this time there are other reviews of this book, but this is the only one with a verified purchase.

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2019. . You can view Barnes & Noble’s Privacy Policy. *Includes a Bonus PDF of images from the book. Reconstruction and its long aftermath down to the 1920s was a series of revolutions and counter-revolutions and Gates’s success here is in telling it as a moving and complex story about politics, science, art, and ideas all wrapped in one form after another of racism, managed and blunted by resistance. Enforcing the stark color line and ensuring the roll back of the rights of formerly enslaved people, racist images were reproduced on an unprecedented scale thanks to advances in technology such as chromolithography, which enabled their widespread dissemination in advertisements, on postcards, and on an astonishing array of everyday objects.

. Gates, whose own portrait hangs in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, writes not only as a scholar of this culture war but as an influential participant." In Wonders of the African World, he embarked upon a series of journeys to reveal the history of African culture. Until 1877, the federal government, goaded by the activism of Frederick Douglass and many others, tried at various turns to sustain their new rights. .

.orange-text-color {font-weight:bold; color: #FE971E;}View high quality images that let you zoom in to take a closer look. The series also explores the flowering of Black art, music, literature and culture as tools of resistance and the surge of political activism that launched the NAACP and other groups. Who has best dismantled white supremacy, and how? . Any remaining illusions about a prevailing racial harmony you may have brought to the Trump era will dissipate. ), The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism: Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism, ( a history that very much needs telling and hearing in these times.” —Nell Irvin Painter, New York Times Book Review   “[A] luminous history of Reconstruction, and the savage white backlash that derailed it. Colorlines is a daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning in-depth reporting, news analysis, opinion and curation. I highly recommend "How to Read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence! . Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. The history of American democracy has been one of constant push and pull, with rare moments of revolutionary triumph for the oppressed—surrounded and threatened with destruction by long periods of reaction.

. These millions of Africans created new and vibrant cultures, magnificently compelling syntheses of various African, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish influences.Despite their great numbers, the cultural and social worlds that they created remain largely unknown to most Americans, except for certain popular, cross-over musical forms. Bringing a lifetime of wisdom to bear as a scholar, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Gates uncovers the roots of structural racism in our own time, while showing how African Americans after slavery combatted it by articulating a vision of a “New Negro” to force the nation to recognize their humanity and unique contributions to America as it hurtled toward the modern age.The story Gates tells begins with great hope, with the Emancipation Proclamation, Union victory, and the liberation of nearly 4 million enslaved African-Americans. Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s new four-part documentary series, “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War,” delves into the years following the Civil War, during which the nation struggled with recovery from conflict and loss, rebuilding ruined cities and the unprecedented social transformation brought about by the end of slavery. 32 . A compressed, yet surprisingly comprehensive narrative sweep . The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. Even in this age of super-diffuse media content, watching PBS still feels like eating your fiber and vegetables.