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In Stony the Road, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., offers a new rendering of the struggle by AfricanAmericans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counte...
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Let our rejoicing rise. High as the list'ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won. Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chast'ning rod,
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of theHutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker ...
Interwoven with this history, Stony the Road examines America's first postwar clash of images utilizing modern mass media to divide, overwhelm--and resist. Enforcing ...
8.42"l. x 5.51"w. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African-American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history of the Reconstruction Era. Through his close reading of the visual culture of this tragic era, Gates reveals ...
Jan 1, 2024 · "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 slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar one, as is the civil rights revolution that ...
A separatist organization founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914 to settle Black Americans in West Africa. A Black cultural blossoming in the arts during the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem, New York. A form of extrajudicial violence by which a mob kills an individual, usually by hanging.
