In this "penetrating new analysis" ( New York Times Book Review), Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of 20th century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner. Listen to "Stony the Road Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. available from Rakuten Kobo.

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His juxtaposition of the many iterations of the "New Negro" versus the "Old Negro" seemed to illustrate conflict between common folk and cultural, intellectual elites as well as generational differences between African Americans caught up in the forces of historical push back and resistance to endemic racism still plaguing this country today. Allen C. Guelzo, Narrated by: Audiobook narrated by Dominic Hoffman. Vincent Harding - introduction, Narrated by:



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Start a free 30-day trial today and get your first audiobook free. David W. Blight, Narrated by: With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilisations and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and there established a foothold. Mela Lee, Written by:

The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. Soong-Chan Rah - foreword, Narrated by:

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Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. Please sign in again so you can continue to borrow titles and access your Loans, Wish list, and Holds pages. A. Kirsten Mullen, Narrated by: I also found the style difficult.

This is a well written and powerful exam of the time following the end of the Civil War. I am very disappointed. To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals. Dion Graham. As sad as this is to say I had never heard of Reconstruction until I read this book. 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 combated 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. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today.

In this new audiobook, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era to the "nadir" of the African American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance.



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. Through his close reading of the visual culture of this tragic era, Gates reveals the many faces of Jim Crow and how, together, they reinforced a stark color line between white and black Americans. Through mechanisms designed by southern democrats that specifically excluded maids and farm workers, the gap between blacks and whites actually widened despite postwar prosperity. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Please review your cart. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, Important Notice about Copyrighted Materials. Michelle Alexander, Narrated by:



The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. This book, however, is much more like a review of the philosophy and literature of the period. £7.99/month after 30 days. Wilkerson interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to previously untapped data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account.

After 30 days, Audible costs CDN$14.95/month + applicable taxes, cancel any time, Unlimited access to Audible Original Podcasts. Tonya Bolden, Narrated by: In this new audiobook, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era to the "nadir" of the African American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance. I would have appreciated more biographical background on many of the black leaders, writers and artists that he writes about, but of course I'm free to find such information for myself: one should not criticize an author for not doing ALL the reader's work. Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement. Add a library card to your account to borrow titles, place holds, and add titles to your wish list. He surveys an era full of pain and loss but also human persistence and astonishing cultural renewal in African American life.

In this unique book he takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the social, historical and political factors that have left us where we are today. Tell readers what you thought by rating and reviewing this book. The mix creates a narration that is near perfection and guides listeners deftly through Gates's accessible but complex meditation on black identity in a racist America." Martha S. Jones, Narrated by:

I had no idea what a racist President Woodrow Wilson actually was, nor the era significance of “Birth of a Nation” and how vile and reprehensible it was, the history of blackface, and the incredible bigotry and resentments against African Americans that occurred during Reconstruction.



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.