{"title":"Henry Louis Gates","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"whos-black-and-why-a-hidden-chapter-from-the-eighteenth-century-invention-of-race-henry-louis-gates-paperback","title":"Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race -- Henry Louis Gates, Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2023 PROSE Award in European History\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An invaluable historical example of the creation of a scientific conception of race that is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Reveals how prestigious natural scientists once sought physical explanations, in vain, for a social identity that continues to carry enormous significance to this day.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Nell Irvin Painter, author of \u003ci\u003eThe History of White People\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"To read [these essays] is to witness European intellectuals, in the age of the Atlantic slave trade, struggling, one after another, to justify atrocity.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Jill Lepore, author of \u003ci\u003eThese Truths: A History of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences announced a contest for the best essay on the sources of \"blackness.\" What is the physical cause of blackness and African hair, and what is the cause of Black degeneration, the contest announcement asked. Sixteen essays, written in French and Latin, were ultimately dispatched from all over Europe. Documented on each page are European ideas about who is Black and why. Looming behind these essays is the fact that some four million Africans had been kidnapped and shipped across the Atlantic by the time the contest was announced. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe essays themselves represent a broad range of opinions, which nonetheless circulate around a common theme: the search for a scientific understanding of the new concept of race. More important, they provide an indispensable record of the Enlightenment-era thinking that normalized the sale and enslavement of Black human beings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese never previously published documents survived the centuries tucked away in Bordeaux's municipal library. Translated into English and accompanied by a detailed introduction and headnotes written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Andrew Curran, each essay included in this volume lays bare the origins of anti-Black racism and colorism in the West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henry Louis Gates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.78w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674295452","brand":"Henry Louis Gates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44969540223204,"sku":"9780674295452","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780674295452.jpg?v=1719471358"},{"product_id":"stony-the-road-reconstruction-white-supremacy-and-the-rise-of-jim-crow-henry-louis-gates-paperback","title":"Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow -- Henry Louis Gates, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Stony the Road\u003c\/i\u003e presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history--the spot under our country's rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept. \u003ci\u003eStony the Road\u003c\/i\u003e lifts the rug. --Nell Irvin Painter, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, by the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Black Church.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. 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? 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough his close reading of the visual culture of this tragic era, Gates reveals the many faces of Jim Crow and how, together, they reinforced a stark color line between white and black Americans. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story Gates tells begins with great hope, with the Emancipation Proclamation, Union victory, and the liberation of nearly 4 million enslaved African-Americans. Until 1877, the federal government, goaded by the activism of Frederick Douglass and many others, tried at various turns to sustain their new rights. But the terror unleashed by white paramilitary groups in the former Confederacy, combined with deteriorating economic conditions and a loss of Northern will, restored home rule to the South. The retreat from Reconstruction was followed by one of the most violent periods in our history, with thousands of black people murdered or lynched and many more afflicted by the degrading impositions of Jim Crow segregation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn essential tour through one of America's fundamental historical tragedies, \u003ci\u003eStony the Road\u003c\/i\u003e is also a story of heroic resistance, as figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells fought to create a counter-narrative, and culture, inside the lion's mouth. As sobering as this tale is, it also has within it the inspiration that comes with encountering the hopes our ancestors advanced against the longest odds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henry Louis Gates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525559559\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e, is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. 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