Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

320 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative reflective slow-paced
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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 st...

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informative 100%
challenging 62%
reflective 57%
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dark 24%
emotional 20%
hopeful 6%
tense 4%
inspiring 2%

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