a history that very much needs telling and hearing in these times.” —Nell Irvin Painter, New York Times Book Review   “[A] luminous history of Reconstruction, and the savage white backlash that derailed it. Auto Suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Lively . | ISBN 9780525559535

.orange-text-color {font-weight:bold; color: #FE971E;}Enjoy features only possible in digital – start reading right away, carry your library with you, adjust the font, create shareable notes and highlights, and more. essential . The documentary begins with the exuberant hope that accompanied the end of the war and the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865 and ends in 1915, by which time Jim Crow and segregation were hardened facts of life. ), The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism: Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism, ( Gates, who is expert at both, catching fish while seeing tides, leaves us with a simple, implicit moral: a long fight for freedom, with too many losses along the way, can be sustained only by a rich and complicated culture. In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato “processes,” and of slyly stubborn resistance to the indignities of segregation. . Against the steepest of odds, they waged war by other means: countering depictions of black people as ignorant, debased and inhuman with images of a vanguard of educated and upstanding men and women who were talented, cosmopolitan and urbane.”, Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2019. He shows both the similarities and distinctions between these cultures, and how the New World manifestations are rooted in, but distinct from, their African antecedents. . There's a problem loading this menu right now. Professor Gates is also writing two books about the Reconstruction era. There was a problem loading your book clubs. . Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics), Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus), The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made, Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner), The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches, The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave. Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. a fresh, much-needed inquiry into a misunderstood yet urgently relevant era.” — Booklist, starred review, ©1997-2020 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc. 122 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011, Submit your email address to receive Barnes & Noble offers & updates. Harvard professor and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. raises disturbing and vital questions about this dichotomy. 110 And on reflection, you’ll pretty much completely understand how we got into our national racial consciousness, as well as our current national political pickle.” —Martha’s Vineyard Times“A necessary—and disturbingly relevant—read.” —People magazine“The academics study the tides of history, while the popular historians go out fishing to find (and tag) the big fish that presumably make the ocean worth watching. African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction. But this is a work that shows that good history can also rise up as a redemption song when we know the facts of what happened and why and how people endure, thrive and create their own new worlds.” —David W. Blight, Yale University, and author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom   “In this insightful, provocative book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., reminds us how the hopes inspired by emancipation and Reconstruction were dashed by a racist backlash, and how a new system of inequality found cultural expression in Lost Cause mythology and degrading visual images of African Americans. 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 … 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. 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. The solutions are multiracial and multicultural. 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. He argues that it also concerned African American equality in the spheres of civil society, culture, and economics and that black Reconstruction continued in these areas well into the 1920s, even as the Southern revanchists attempted to impose a new white racial order. . White supremacy triumphs in this long dark era; it left many casualties along the by-ways of America's worst sins.

Your email address will not be published. The rest—over ten and a half million—were taken to the Caribbean and Latin America. . . In Brazil, he delves behind the façade of Carnaval to discover how this ‘rainbow nation’ is waking up to its legacy as the world’s largest slave economy.In Cuba, he finds out how the culture, religion, politics and music of this island is inextricably linked to the huge amount of slave labor imported to produce its enormously profitable 19th century sugar industry, and how race and racism have fared since Fidel Castro’s Communist revolution in 1959.In Haiti, he tells the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic, and finds out how the slaves’s hard fought liberation over Napoleon Bonaparte’s French Empire became a double-edged sword. 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 … Follow to get new release updates and improved recommendations. John Lewis“Drawing on the finest current scholarship, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., offers a chilling account of Reconstruction’s overthrow and the rise of American apartheid. .

In this piercing, haunting study, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chronicles an American tragedy, the story of how white supremacy and Jim Crow became the South’s—and white America’s—brutal answer to Emancipation and Reconstruction. It's an absorbing and necessary look at an era in which the hard-fought gains of African-Americans were rolled back by embittered Southern whites — an era that, in some ways, has never really ended. "–Sam Sorbo, Actress. . Gates’ analysis is predictably brilliant, but he’s also just a joy to read.” —NPR   “Harrowing but necessary.” —Time  “A timely chronicle of the battle to define blackness that raged from the Civil War through civil rights . The series is the first to air since 1968 that chronicles the full sweep of 500 years of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent and the arrival of the first black conquistador, Juan Garrido, in Florida in 1513, through five centuries of remarkable historic events right up to Barack Obama’s second term as president, when the United States still remains deeply divided by race and class. So Henry Louis Gates, Jr. set out on a quest to discover how Latin Americans of African descent live now, and how the countries of their acknowledge—or deny—their African past; how the fact of race and African ancestry play themselves out in the multicultural worlds of the Caribbean and Latin America. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 27, 2020, Necessary reading to understand america’s Racial divides. The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS series, And Still I Rise—a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos. The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is the companion book to the six-part, six-hour documentary of the same name. The series also explores the flowering of Black art, music, literature and culture as tools of resistance and the surge of political activism that launched the NAACP and other groups. He surveys an era full of pain and loss but also human persistence and astonishing cultural renewal in African American life.

Gates' analysis is predictably brilliant, but he's also just a joy to read.” —NPR   “Harrowing but necessary.” —Time  "A timely chronicle of the battle to define blackness that raged from the Civil War through civil rights . . . Page, African American Demographic Studies (Books), © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. . . . Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Visit Amazon's Henry Louis Gates Jr. Resilience and resistance are the same activity, seen at different moments in the struggle. ), This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. Paperback 188 “Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. .

The book includes a sampling of racist post cards, lithographs, product ads, and more to show you just how deeply ingrained this propaganda was in daily life. In Wonders of the African World, he embarked upon a series of journeys to reveal the history of African culture. (