MixedLos Angeles Review of BooksGates offers an innovative reinterpretation of a \'long Reconstruction\' and a \'war of imagery\' that produced the nation’s most odious and enduring antiblack images but also created a well of resistance ... Like the Legacy Museum, Stony the Road faces a narrative dilemma in how it frames black resistance to white supremacy. To what extent should the destructive nature of white supremacy be centered and what emphasis should be placed on the courageous but Sisyphean efforts of African Americans to challenge the Jim Crow regime? ... fails to take the next step in fully painting the world of the black cultural workers who attempted to muddy the distinction between highbrow and lowbrow art ... provides a rich cultural history of the Reconstruction and its afterlife.
