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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.

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While we can't guarantee fulfillment of a signed book pre-order, our authors are almost always able to sign extra books to fulfill such orders. 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.

Wells fought to create a counter-narrative, and culture, inside the lion's mouth. E-mail [email protected].

Hardcover $16.89 $ 16. He has also been the curator of several museum exhibitions, including the prize-winning "A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln," at the Chicago Historical Society. You can still pre-order a signed book by one of our visiting authors. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W. E. B. Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. Ave. and look for the newsstand called Crimson Corner. Add the book to your shopping cart and then click. Stony the Road: Toll Free (800) 542-READ What does it look like? With debate raging over how we should remember the Confederacy, and basic rights again under threat, this unflinching look at our history could not be more timely.” —Eric Foner, author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution “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. See our listings for our upcoming virtual events. . A high quality digital reading experience. If you are requesting a personalized inscription and/or requesting your book be shipped, we'll need to take down credit card information.

His six-part PBS documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program-Long Form. [T]his 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, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Learn more at masshumanities.org. The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University supports research on the history and culture of people of African descent the world over and provides a forum for collaboration and the ongoing exchange of ideas. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and holder of the distinguished title of Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University. Du Bois and Ida B.

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 combatted 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. As with all web or phone orders, we can hold your book for in-store pickup, or ship it anywhere in the country. “In Stony the Road, Gates demonstrates his chops as a lyrical narrative historian. 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. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , is the director of the W. E. B.

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Gates tells those powerful stories, too, from Frederick Douglass to Ida B. Learn more at hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu. The story Gates tells begins with great hope, with the Emancipation Proclamation, Union victory, and the liberation of nearly 4 million enslaved African-Americans.

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The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. His book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize in 2011. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.

Shop this week's new arrivals, updated every Tuesday. Cambridge, MA 02138, Tel (617) 661-1515 But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked "a new birth of freedom" in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America?

An Emmy Award–winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or co-authored twenty-four books and created twenty documentary films, including Finding Your Roots and Reconstruction: America after the Civil War. Skip to main content Hello, Sign in.

He'll be joined in conversation by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and Columbia University professor ERIC FONER. Only 1 left in stock - order soon. Do I need to pre-order a book?

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We apologize for any inconvenience. Two-Volume Set), The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism, Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass[Illustrated], Reconsidering Race: Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics, Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus), The African-American Century : How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country, The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire: New Edition, Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008, Harvard University Press Reference Library.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. There is no extra fee for a signed book!

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