Stony the Road
Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
Format: Book
Description: xxii, 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Chronicles America's post-Civil War struggle for racial equality and the violent counterrevolution that resubjugated black Americans throughout the twentieth century, as seen through the visual culture of the era.
Contents:
Antislavery/antislave backlash : the white resistance to black Reconstruction -- The old Negro : race, science, literature, and the birth of Jim Crow -- Chains of being : the black body and the white mind -- Framing blackness : Sambo art and the visual rhetoric of white supremacy -- The United States of race : mass-producing stereotypes and fear -- The new Negro : redeeming the race from the redeemers -- Reframing race : a new Negro enters the frame -- Epilogue -- Reconstruction redux : the caricature assassination of the first black president.
Subjects:
African Americans -- Segregation -- History.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877.
African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964.
White supremacy movements -- United States -- History.
Racism in popular culture -- United States -- History.
Visual communication -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Segregation -- History.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877.
African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964.
White supremacy movements -- United States -- History.
Racism in popular culture -- United States -- History.
Visual communication -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780525559535 (hardcover)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index.