Interwoven with this history, Stony the Road examines America's first postwar clash of images utilizing modern mass media to divide, overwhelm-and resist. But the century in between remains a mystery: If emancipation came in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America? In a history that moves from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African American experience, brings a lifetime of wisdom to bear as a scholar, filmmaker, and public intellectual to answer that question. The story of the abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar one, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. Redeeming the race from the redeemers - Reframing race : enter the New Negro Summary '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.

Sambo art and the visual rhetoric of white supremacy - The United States of race : mass-producing stereotypes and fear - Four. The Old Negro - Race, science, literature, and the birth of Jim Crow - Chains of being : the black body and the white mind - Three. Antislavery/antislave - Backlash : the white resistance to black Reconstruction - Two. NMAFMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Object Details author Gates, Henry Louis Jr. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.

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