Stony the road Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow

"A profound new rendering of the struggle by African Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counterrevolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring stain on the American mind. The story of the abolition of...

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