@article{859213,
      recid = {859213},
      author = {Gates, Henry Louis,},
      title = {Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the  rise of Jim Crow /},
      pages = {xxii, 296 pages :},
      abstract = {"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. The  abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a  familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that  transformed the nation after World War II. But the century  in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked 'a  new birth of freedom' in Lincoln's America, why was it  necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America? In  this new book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading  chroniclers of the African-American experience, seeks to  answer that question in a history that moves from the  Reconstruction Era to the 'nadir' of the African-American  experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the  Harlem Renaissance. Through his close reading of the visual  culture of this tragic era, Gates reveals the many faces of  Jim Crow and how, together, they reinforced a stark color  line between white and black Americans. Bringing a lifetime  of wisdom to bear as a scholar, filmmaker, and public  intellectual, Gates uncovers the roots of structural racism  in our own time, while showing how African Americans after  slavery combatted it by articulating a vision of a "New  Negro" to force the nation to recognize their humanity and  unique contributions to America as it hurtled toward the  modern age. The book will be accompanied by a new PBS  documentary series on the same topic, with full promotional  support from PBS"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/859213},
}