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In Gates's telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth--as it is in heaven.\" --Jon Meacham, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eStony the Road\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Black Box\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity--an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today's political landscape. At road's end, and after Gates's distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative--as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community's most critical personal and social issues. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery's formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn't even past--Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community's most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society's darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51850178986269,"sku":"9781984880352","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/1259\/2413\/files\/imageloader_e00b2dac-af37-45dc-90ed-46035c217bb1.jpg?v=1780709541"},{"product_id":"stony-the-road-reconstruction-white-supremacy-and-the-rise-of-jim-crow","title":"Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e' 100 Notable Books of 2019 - One of \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e' Best Books of the year - Finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Nonfiction Literature\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eStony the Road\u003c\/i\u003e presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . 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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. 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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.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51850179346717,"sku":"9780525559559","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/1259\/2413\/files\/imageloader_51cf4715-901a-4f7a-9e4f-fc9bb3a3109d.jpg?v=1780709544"},{"product_id":"the-black-box-writing-the-race","title":"The Black Box: Writing the Race","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book - Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Christian Gauss Award for Outstanding Books in Literary Scholarship \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions.\" -- Isabel Wilkerson, \u003cb\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Warmth of Other Suns \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is a literary history of Black America, but it is also an argument that African American history is inextricable from the history of African American literature.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with one another, over the course of the country's history\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDistilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s, legendary Harvard introductory course in African American studies, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Box: Writing the Race\u003c\/i\u003e, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison--these writers used words to create a livable world, a home, for Black people destined to live out their lives in a bitterly racist society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is a book grounded in the beautiful irony that a group formed legally and conceptually by its oppressors to justify brutal subhuman bondage transformed itself \u003ci\u003ethrough the word\u003c\/i\u003e into a community joined in overcoming one of history's most pernicious lies. 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This is a book that records the compelling saga of the creation of a people.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51850179543325,"sku":"9780593299807","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/1259\/2413\/files\/imageloader_cee090a4-5daf-41fc-bbbe-2c48910667f2.jpg?v=1780709549"},{"product_id":"the-african-american-century-how-black-americans-have-shaped-our-country","title":"The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne hundred original profiles of the most influential African Americans of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithout Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, we would not have jazz. Without Toni Morrison or Ralph Ellison, we would miss some of our greatest novels. 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Starting with the slave experience and extending to the present, Gates unveils the history of the African presence in six Latin American countries--Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru--through art, music, cuisine, dance, politics, and religion, but also the very palpable presence of anti-black racism that has sometimes sought to keep the black cultural presence from view. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Brazil, he delves behind the façade of Carnaval to discover how this 'rainbow nation' is waking up to its legacy as the world's largest slave economy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Cuba, he finds out how the culture, religion, politics and music of this island is inextricably linked to the huge amount of slave labor imported to produce its enormously profitable 19th century sugar industry, and how race and racism have fared since Fidel Castro's Communist revolution in 1959. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Haiti, he tells the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic, and finds out how the slaves's hard fought liberation over Napoleon Bonaparte's French Empire became a double-edged sword. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Mexico and Peru, he explores the almost unknown history of the significant numbers of black people--far greater than the number brought to the United States--brought to these countries as early as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the worlds of culture that their descendants have created in Vera Cruz on the Gulf of Mexico, the Costa Chica region on the Pacific, and in and around Lima, Peru. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProfessor Gates' journey becomes ours as we are introduced to the faces and voices of the descendants of the Africans who created these worlds. 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