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  1. www.britannica.com › biography › Henry-Louis-Gates-JrHenry Louis Gates, Jr. | Biography, Finding Your Roots, Books ...

    Jun 27, 2024 · Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Born: September 16, 1950, Keyser, West Virginia, U.S. (age 73) Notable Works: “Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the ”Racial” Self”. “Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow”.

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  2. www.bookrags.com › studyguide-stony-the-roadStony the Road Summary & Study Guide - BookRags.com

    In Stony the Road, Henry Gates Jr. presents a linear historical narrative taking place between the Reconstruction Era (1861-1873) and the Harlem Renaissance.

  3. www.bookbrowse.com › 14057 › stony-the-roadSummary and reviews of Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    Book Summary. A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind.

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  4. www.supersummary.com › stony-the-road › summaryStony the Road Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary

    Written by Henry Louis Gates Jr., an award-winning literary critic, historian, and documentary filmmaker, Stony the Road not only sheds light on critical periods in US history, but also explains how these eras continue to affect the lives of Americans today.

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    Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow is a 2019 non-fiction book written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. covering African-American history during the Reconstruction era, Redemption era, and the New Negro Movement.

  6. www.supersummary.com › stony-the-road › chapter-1Stony the Road Chapter 1 Summary & Analysis | SuperSummary

    Chapter 1 of Stony the Road presents the contemporary US against the backdrop of the post-Civil War era. It begins with the 2008 election of Barack Obama to the US presidency, which Gates compares to three momentous events in Black history: the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), the legal abolishment of enslavement with the ratification of the ...

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    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...