![]() ![]() Gates includes two lithograph prints featuring images of black men leering suggestively at white women, grotesque caricatures of society's. The implication is that black women were being raped by white slave owners. Gates points out that because of DNA analysis, we now know that one in three African American males possess DNA linking them to a white ancestor. These same stereotypes were used to justify lynchings-a black man could be accused of raping (or even simply giving a suggestive look to) a white woman and he would be executed, hung from a tree by a roving band of white vigilantes. Black men were depicted as rapists, with segregation the required solution to protect white women's purity. Book Cover Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim. ![]() Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author information, biography, photograph. The racist propaganda machine worked overtime during Redemption/Jim Crow to declare race mixing an abomination. Average rating 4.11 33,010 ratings 3,841 reviews shelved 140,968 times. ![]() Chapter 3 continues with a section on the fears of miscegenation. ![]()
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