Stony the Road

I learned about history I haven't heard of before and I especially enjoyed reading the insight of how art and literature can impact the way we “remember” history

This was a cultural history more than a political history and because of the different focus, it would pair well with Foner's Reconstuction. I still need to get a political history for post-reconstruction that I think gives a good overview of the era.

The cultural history I think tells the story of white supremacy well and I think that is a story that needs to be told and understood well.

4/5 - This was a very good book as it answered a lot of my questions as to “How did we get here as a race?”. It all makes sense to me now. I did not like the exclusion of the black woman during Reconstruction, Redemption and Jim Crow in this book. They were not brought up until later during the Harlem Renaissance. I would like to think we contributed a lot during that time period as well, so it felt like a dismissal.