Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

Synopsis

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. 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. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 265-279) And Index.