![]() ![]() Conversations Book Club features authors. ![]() puts it in his brilliant new book, Stony the Road, Redemption was 'when the gains of Reconstruction were systematically erased and the country witnessed. I was struck by a sweeping criticism Gates offers in discussing the Harlem Renaissance. Join the conversation this month through Zoom to discuss STONY THE ROAD by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. As literary scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. Analytically, this is a lively, consistently challenging book. the author is a painstakingly honest broker in describing the combat among black opinion leaders over the roles of class, skin color, education and social adaptation vs. Gates is at his most fluent in defining the newer Negro as a feature of the Harlem Renaissance powered by Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson and other key figures of the African American creative pantheon. With a main text of about 250 pages, Gates offers a compressed, yet surprisingly comprehensive narrative sweep. For those wishing to know more about this dismal story of racial hysteria in places as high as Woodrow Wilson’s White House and as low as the blackface minstrel show, Stony the Road is excellent one-stop shopping. Gates’s book covers territory well known to scholars and Civil War buffs. ![]()
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