More than one hundred and fifty years later, this struggle continues.”. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Also, l learned a new level of compassion, understanding, and reconciliation l hope to show when l interact with my students and staff on a daily basis. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Many pieces are falling in place as I read this book, or more literally, scales are falling from my eyes.
Martha Bouyer currently serves as the Executive Director of the Historic Bethel Baptist Church Foundation.
His book covers the eras of Reconstruction, Redemption, and the New Negro Movement. I have been reinvigorated and motivated to renew my teaching skills within my classes for the upcoming school year. Gates says white supremacy was born in the years after the Civil War, as white Southerners looked for ways to roll back the newly acquired rights of African-Americans. Gates: Honestly, I think the greatest challenge was finding the right balance and pace to convey the promise and achievements of the Civil War and Reconstruction, without making it too legalistic or abstract, while also neither shielding young readers from nor overwhelming them with the haunting violence of the period, from night riders to lynchings. This institute will take place primarily in Birmingham, Alabama. As someone who has spent a lifetime in the academy, do you find the role that the nation’s premier institutions of higher learning played in perpetuating racist theories particularly disturbing? Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Please try again. In the aftermath of the Civil War, the nation was devastated by death and deconstruction. The lectures, first-hand accounts, and locations gave a broad perspective of everything inclusive of Alabama’s role in the Civil Rights Movement. Watch all of them online here! View photos and video from past events and see where Steve will be next! Very sad commentary on humanity. She served as the curriculum consultant for the NEH-funded documentary “Slavery by Another Name” and as the project director for “Never Lose Sight of Freedom” – a project of the National Park Service to tell the story of the Selma to Montgomery March for the right to vote. SDHSAA Yearbook / Archive of results, photos, and official records. ), Gates continues a tradition of producing sophisticated documentary films about the African and African-American experience for a broad audience, including the Emmy Award-winning documentary THE AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS, as well as the documentaries AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES and BLACK AMERICA SINCE MLK: AND STILL I RISE. Educators selected to take part in this intensive institute will participate in lectures by scholars, interact with iconic leaders and foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement, travel to key sites of memory as well as sites dedicated to the preservation of civil rights history (in Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery, and Tuskegee, Alabama), and review archival film footage and other primary source documents as they develop curricular projects. Please try your request again later. And as the last two years have shown, it's not over yet. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.
At the same time, I cannot help but see the poetic justice in the fact that Columbia University, which, more than any other school, promulgated this racist view of Reconstruction in the early twentieth century in what was known as “the Dunning School,” is now the home of Eric Foner, the greatest historian of my generation, who, building on the work of W.E.B. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Visit Amazon's Henry Louis Gates Jr. Du Bois called “a brief moment in the sun” for African Americans.
At this time there are other reviews of this book, but this is the only one with a verified purchase. Reconstruction: America After the Civil War DVD, Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. tells the story of the rise of white supremacy after the Civil War and Black America’s response to it. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Alabama Humanities Foundation together, present: “Stony the Road We Trod . The research is captivating and interesting, and the photo art, which is powerful and explanatory, is stunning. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. With contributions from donors, Library of America preserves and celebrates a vital part of our cultural heritage for generations to come. Gates' book is a fascinating social and intellectual history of the time between Reconstruction and the rise of the Jim Crow period of American history. His new book is Stony the Road. © Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow, Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs, Sign up for the Library of America E-Newsletter, Critical Mass (National Book Critics Circle), Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts (Rhys Tranter). We work hard to protect your security and privacy. is a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Films and WETA Washington, DC. . Met by intransigence in the South and increasing indifference in the North, their efforts failed, and what followed instead was a long and brutal period of reaction. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or coauthored twenty-four books and created twenty documentary films. Mr. Gates weaves a heart wrenching tapestry of mans inhumanity to his fellow man in this revealing story of a part a America that very few white Americans and many Black Americans see every day and yet are completely ignorant of the affect it has on our country.
Events of the past are frequently filtered through a majority lens, focusing on the perceived heroics of, for example, white abolitionists and civil rights activists. This is a well written and powerful exam of the time following the end of the Civil War. Gates: The visual record of anti-black racism in the period I cover is so overwhelming—is such an avalanche—that I wanted to find a way to let it speak for itself in an unmediated way, so that readers today can get a sense of what it must’ve been like to be alive in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when one was bombarded on a daily basis with postcards, advertisements, trading cards, you name it, that debased black people in a series of brutalizing “Sambo” stereotypes that called out for a response. It will come as no surprise to anyone who's familiar with Gates' impressive body of work that Stony the Road is every bit as fascinating as the author's previous books. Recent projects include FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Seasons 1-5 (PBS), AFRICA’S GREAT CIVILIZATIONS (PBS), MAKERS (Oath), ONCE & FOR ALL (AOL), FIRST IN HUMAN (Discovery), and RANCHER, FARMER, FISHERMAN (Discovery). I can't say enough about the impact this book had on my understanding of the issues involved. LOA: You survey, often in chilling detail, the multifaceted manifestations of white supremacy in American life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from picture postcards and plantation literature to phrenology and eugenics. For twelve tumultuous years, from 1865 to 1877, Congressional Republicans attempted to usher in a second American revolution, one that would finally fulfill the promise of the first by rebuilding the fractured union as a biracial democracy. .orange-text-color {color: #FE971E;} Discover additional details about the events, people, and places in your book, with Wikipedia integration. Stories about interesting South Dakota people, places, and things. As Henry Louis Gates, Jr., shows in his new book Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, the superstructure of Jim Crow rested on a foundation of dehumanizing racialist ideology that was pervasive (by no means limited to the South), violent, and unabashed. The solutions are multiracial and multicultural.
“Stony the Road, a must-read post Reconstruction history from one of the foremost historians of our time, proves that the past can be prologue. What was the biggest challenge for you in trying to make this story accessible for young people? An alumna of the University of Montevallo, Laura also earned graduate degrees from the University of West Georgia and The University of Alabama with an emphasis on History and American Studies. 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. Inkwell Films has co-produced FINDING YOUR ROOTS (Seasons 1-5), AFRICA’S GREAT CIVILIZATIONS (2017), BLACK AMERICA SINCE MLK; AND STILL I RISE (2016), BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA (2011), FACES OF AMERICA (2010), LOOKING FOR LINCOLN (2009), AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES 2 (2008), OPRAH’S ROOTS (2007) and AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES (2006). Enforcing the stark color line and ensuring the roll back of the rights of formerly enslaved people, racist images were reproduced on an unprecedented scale thanks to advances in technology such as chromolithography, which enabled their widespread dissemination in advertisements, on postcards, and on an astonishing array of everyday objects. BEVERLY HILLS, CA; JULY 30, 2018 — Today at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, PBS announced RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR (w.t. It was a life changing opportunity. Following that, we always had time to personally talk to the visiting faculty to answer any remaining questions. Du Bois in the 1930s, has permanently revised our understanding of Reconstruction as a noble, if too short-lived, experiment in interracial democracy that reconstituted the Union on the basis of freedom and equal citizenship rights, while creating a space for black institution-building and public education that remains vital to our country today. Penguin Books; Illustrated Edition (April 7, 2020), Interesting, but subject matter not quite as advertised, Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2019. Please review the website for more details and information on how to apply! She participated in the 2010 NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Teacher Workshop “Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston and Her Eatonville Roots.” As the former Programs Director for Alabama Humanities Foundation, she served as project administrator for the 2016 NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshop “‘Stony the Road We Trod…’: Alabama’s Role in the Modern Civil Rights Movement.” In 2018, she served as the Master Teacher for the NEH “Stony” Institute. Prior to this program, I had limited knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement. 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. . Please try again. Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2019, The flyleaf also says, “Stony the Road examines America’ first post-war clash of images utilizing modern mass media to divide, overwhelm – and resist.
Without a doubt, there is an added urgency to spreading the word about Reconstruction today. Each month, PBS reaches nearly 100 million people through television and nearly 28 million people online, inviting them to experience the worlds of science, history, nature and public affairs; to hear diverse viewpoints; and to take front row seats to world-class drama and performances. What is it that you most hope readers will understand about this period after reading your book and seeing your film?