Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow
Title:
Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow
Author:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr, author.
ISBN:
9780525559535
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Physical Description:
xxii, 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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.
Abstract:
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.
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