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Index
Cover
Also by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
In Memoriam
Contents
Epigraph
Preface
One: Antislavery/Antislave
A Look at Reconstruction
A Second Slavery
“A War of Ideas”
Opposition
How Did Reconstruction Fail?
Backlash: The White Resistance to Black Reconstruction
Two: The Old Negro
Racial Science and Scientific Racism
Post–Civil War Scientific Racism
Eugenics and Progressivism
World War I
Defining the “Negro Problem”
The Negro: A Problem of Whose Making?
Plantation Literature
The Specter of Reconstruction
Birth of an Icon
Chains of Being: The Black Body and the White Mind
Three: Framing Blackness
Miscegenation
The “Natural” Propensity to Rape
Blackface
The Birth of a Nation
The United States of Race: Mass-Producing Stereotypes and Fear
Four: The New Negro
The Birth of the New Negro
“The Politics of Respectability”
Every Picture Tells a Story: Du Bois’s Exhibit of American Negroes
The Look of Respectability
“Brutal Drawing of the Color Line”
Enter the Newer New Negroes
A New Race Literature
The Harlem Renaissance: Let the Negro Speak for Himself
Reframing Race: Enter the New Negro
Epilogue
A Note About the Text
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Illustration Credits
About the Author
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