![]() Gates juxtaposes the optimism of Reconstruction, the despair of Redemption and the promise of the New Negro movement - the effort by black Americans, starting around the turn of the 20th century, to craft a counternarrative to white supremacy. The book sets the Obama era beside Reconstruction and the Trump era beside the white supremacist terrorism of Redemption, the period beginning in 1877 during which Reconstruction’s nascent, biracial democracy was largely dismantled. Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s “Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow,” an indispensable guide to the making of our times, addresses 2017’s mystifications. ![]() ![]() Trump as president seemed to come from some place other than America, as though the white nationalism, the sexism, the meanness of spirit belonged to some hateful foreign country. ![]() STONY THE ROAD Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow By Henry Louis Gates Jr. ![]()
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