Stony the Road (Inscribed)
Language: English
Published by Penguin Press, 2019
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GATES, Henry Louis, Jr. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. New York: Penguin Press, 2019. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Second printing of the first edition, inscribed on the title page in black ink "To Annmarie [?] / With Best Wishes" and signed by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The recipient's name is our best reading of the handwriting and is not certain. The inscription is written across the printed title page, around the title and the author's name. Please see the photograph. Gates's history of the century between emancipation and the civil rights movement: Reconstruction, the violent backlash that ended it, and the rise of Jim Crow, read through the racist imagery of the period and the "New Negro" answer to it. A New York Times bestseller. The copyright page reads "Copyright 2019 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.," "Printed in the United States of America," and "Designed by Amanda Dewey," with the number line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2, which makes this the second printing. The CIP data gives ISBN 9780525559535 (hardcover). The ink of the inscription shows faintly through to the copyright page on the verso of the title leaf. Hardcover in the publisher's white pictorial dust jacket with the silhouette design. The jacket is clean and bright, with a small patch of light gray scuffing at the head edge of the front panel near the corner. The spine panel is bright and unfaded, lettered "HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. / STONY THE ROAD" with the Penguin Press device. The title page and copyright page are clean apart from the inscription. A near fine copy. Please see photographs. Shipped well packed. Ships from Massachusetts, USA.…
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- Title
- Stony the Road (Inscribed)
- Author
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0525559531
- ISBN 13
- 9780525559535
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 story Gates tells begins with great hope, with the Emancipation Proclamation, Union victory, and the liberation of nearly 4 million enslaved African-Americans. Until 1877, the federal government, goaded by the activism of Frederick Douglass and many others, tried at various turns to sustain their new rights. But the terror unleashed by white paramilitary groups in the former Confederacy, combined with deteriorating economic conditions and a loss of Northern will, restored "home rule" to the South. The retreat from Reconstruction was followed by one of the most violent periods in our history, with thousands of black people murdered or lynched and many more afflicted by the degrading impositions of Jim Crow segregation.
An essential tour through one of America's fundamental historical tragedies, Stony the Road is also a story of heroic resistance, as figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells fought to create a counter-narrative, and culture, inside the lion's mouth. As sobering as this tale is, it also has within it the inspiration that comes with encountering the hopes our ancestors advanced against the longest odds.
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