Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross offer an examination and celebration of Black womanhood, beginning with the first African women who arrived in what became the United States to African-American women of today. It feels like the author has to display all the reserach he has done and does not have the confidencve to put it to one side and just tell you the story. As sad as this is to say I had never heard of Reconstruction until I read this book.



Great listen with lots of gritty details on a covered up history of the US. Blight delves deeply into the shifting meanings of death and sacrifice, Reconstruction, the romanticized South of literature, soldiers' reminiscences of battle, the idea of the Lost Cause, and the ritual of Memorial Day. Du Bois and Ida B. Shayna Small, By:

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I also found the style difficult. 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. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages that interest you.

Wilkerson interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to previously untapped data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account.

A companion to the fantastic 2 part PBS series, both the series and the book are highly recommended. The title should be at least 4 characters long.





Through mechanisms designed by southern democrats that specifically excluded maids and farm workers, the gap between blacks and whites actually widened despite postwar prosperity. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., To me, this is like a companion piece to W. E. B.

The narration is wooden and the narrator does not give the impression that he really understands or cares about what he is reading.
Superbly researched and performed. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout. I had to purchase the book to reread some entries. He surveys an era full of pain and loss but also human persistence and astonishing cultural renewal in African American life.



Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. Yet during the same period when the Supreme Court stamped ‘separate but equal’ as the law of the land, African Americans advanced the concept of the ‘New Negro’ to renew the fight for Reconstruction’s promise.



He resurrects the variety of African-American voices and memories of the war and the efforts to preserve the emancipationist legacy in the midst of a culture built on its denial.

In a popular history book, I am looking for an author who has done all the research and then uses it as the background to tell the story in a compelling way. Start a free 30-day trial today and get your first audiobook free. Jill Lepore, Narrated by: 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.

A. Kirsten Mullen, Narrated by: I had three problems with this book: the narration, the content and the style. by 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. About Stony the Road “Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism.

“In Stony the Road, Gates demonstrates his chops as a lyrical narrative historian. JD Jackson, Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America, Written by: There are currently no items in your Shopping Cart. A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans fo





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Astounding never before addressed, truly learned new interesting facts.

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 combated 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. Gates has a writing style that feels cumbersome, often seeming to cram too much information into one … I would have appreciated more biographical background on many of the black leaders, writers and artists that he writes about, but of course I'm free to find such information for myself: one should not criticize an author for not doing ALL the reader's work.

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Sid Sagar. After 30 days, Audible costs CDN$14.95/month + applicable taxes, cancel any time, Unlimited access to Audible Original Podcasts. Gabourey Sidibe, Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War.

It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 27, 2020, Excellent Historical Context and Beautiful and Powerful Images, Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2019. Du Bois and Ida B. I wish he had done. In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. —Nell Irvin Painter, New York Times Book Review 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. Sheila Wise Rowe, The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and there established a foothold. I had no idea what a racist President Woodrow Wilson actually was, nor the era significance of “Birth of a Nation” and how vile and reprehensible it was, the history of blackface, and the incredible bigotry and resentments against African Americans that occurred during Reconstruction. 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. Of the great figure in 20th-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people.



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The rest, as they say, isn’t history. I am very disappointed. Wells fought to create a counter-narrative, and culture, inside the lion's mouth.

With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilisations and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste. Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation.

Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins' bullets at age 39. From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the 15th century. J. D. Jackson, Written by: Smart, diligent and a bit plain, that’s the general consensus.

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.