Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Stony the road

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1090549839

Responsibility statement

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Sub title

Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow

Summary

Chronicles America's post-Civil War struggle for racial equality and the violent counterrevolution that resubjugated black Americans throughout the twentieth century, as seen through the visual culture of the era

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 : a new Negro enters the frame -- Epilogue -- Reconstruction redux : the caricature assassination of the first black president

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