Stony the Road
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From the end of slavery through Reconstruction’s collapse and into the nadir of Jim Crow, this sweeping history traces how African Americans fought to secure freedom—and how a violent counter-revolution reasserted a rigid color line. Using close readings of the era’s visual culture, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reveals the many faces of segregation and the structural forces that turned emancipation into a promise repeatedly deferred. Moving toward World War I and the Harlem Renaissance, the book highlights the “New Negro” vision and the cultural and political strategies—by thinkers and activists such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells—that challenged America’s official story. Blending scholarly rigor with Gates’s distinctive public-intellectual voice, it connects past terror and resistance to the racial realities of the present, offering both a bracing reckoning and a testament to enduring hope.
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hardcover
Penguin Press
Published Apr 2, 2019
320 pages
ISBN: 9780525559535
paperback
Unknown
Published Apr 7, 2020
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First Published
2020
Language
eng
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