Under the rubric of “monogenis” (57), the. Racial science (which was not science at all, but racist conjecture) posited various theories to assert the inferiority of African Americans.
Gates explains how the relegation of African Americans to the status of “second class citizens” (56) occurred through four intertwined discourses: racial science, journalism, political rhetoric, and fiction and folklore. 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. It begins with quotes from Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Several images depict negative representations of interracial dating, and one features a white man shooting an African American child.Ĭhapter 2 is titled “The Old Negro: Race, Science, Literature, and the Birth of Jim Crow” (55). The images are reprehensibly racist, and largely centered around stoking fears about allowing African Americans to vote. Part II, titled “Backlash: The White Resistance to Black Reconstruction” (39) begins with a series of political cartoons and other propaganda images from 1829-1898.
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