Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was born on September 16, 1950, in Keyser, West Virginia. He received a degree in history from Yale University in 1973 and a Ph.D. from Clare College, which is part of the University of Cambridge in 1979. He is a leading scholar of African-American literature, history, and visa mer culture. He began working on the Black Periodical Literature Project, which uncovered lost literary works published in 1800s. He rediscovered what is believed to be the first novel published by an African-American in the United States. He republished the 1859 work by Harriet E. Wilson, entitled Our Nig, in 1983. He has written numerous books including Colored People: A Memoir, A Chronology of African-American History, The Future of the Race, Black Literature and Literary Theory, and The Signifying Monkey: Towards a Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism. In 1991, he became the head of the African-American studies department at Harvard University. He is now the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at the university. He wrote and produced several documentaries including Wonders of the African World, America Beyond the Color Line, and African American Lives. He has also hosted PBS programs such as Wonders of the African World, Black in Latin America, and Finding Your Roots. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: Henry Louis Gates Jr. speaks on a panel about race in America on the Understanding Our World Stage at the National Book Festival, August 31, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Serier
Verk av Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers (2010) 148 exemplar
Africana, the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999) — Redaktör — 146 exemplar
Africana, the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. The Concise Desk Reference (2003) — Redaktör — 97 exemplar
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Redaktör — 69 exemplar
In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past (2008) 63 exemplar
In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative (2003) — Redaktör; Inledning — 57 exemplar
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 2: Black Models and… (1989) — Redaktör — 40 exemplar
Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race (2022) 29 exemplar
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience (5 Volume Set) (2005) 24 exemplar
Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties (1995) 20 exemplar
The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 (2007) — Redaktör — 20 exemplar
Black is the color of the cosmos : essays on Afro-American literature and culture, 1942-1981 (1982) 8 exemplar
Africa: Its Geography, People, and Products [and] Africa: Its Place in Modern History (1977) — Redaktör — 8 exemplar
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers : 10-Volume Supplement Set (1992) — Redaktör — 2 exemplar
Black in Latin America 2 exemplar
Frederick Douglass 2 exemplar
Joséphine Baker et la revue nègre: lithographie du tumulte noir par Paul Colin, Paris, 1927 (1998) 2 exemplar
African American National Biography: 12-Volume Set (African American History Reference) (2013) 2 exemplar
The Black Box: Writing the Race 1 exemplar
And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK 1 exemplar
Finding your roots. Season 8 1 exemplar
African American National Biography: 2-Volume Set (Oxford African American Historical Reference) (2012) 1 exemplar
Black America since MLK and Still I Rise 1 exemplar
The Black Box: Writing the Race 1 exemplar
“The Trope of the Talking Book” 1 exemplar
Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African… (1986) 1 exemplar
Finding Your Roots, Season 1: The Official Companion to the PBS Series by Henry Louis Gates Jr (2015-08-30) (1814) 1 exemplar
African American Voices of Triumph 1 exemplar
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Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) — Redaktör, vissa utgåvor; Inledning, vissa utgåvor — 683 exemplar
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 558 exemplar
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 429 exemplar
The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century (1968) — Redaktör, vissa utgåvor — 146 exemplar
Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1968) — Redaktör, vissa utgåvor — 137 exemplar
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader (2014) — Redaktör, vissa utgåvor — 121 exemplar
Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture (1995) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 92 exemplar
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 92 exemplar
Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance (1997) — Bidragsgivare; Bidragsgivare — 84 exemplar
The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 78 exemplar
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 75 exemplar
Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice (2015) — Förord — 71 exemplar
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 65 exemplar
Black Folk Then and Now: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race (1939) — Redaktör, vissa utgåvor — 18 exemplar
The Black Flame Trilogy Book One: The Ordeal of Mansart (1957) — Redaktör, vissa utgåvor — 16 exemplar
The Black Flame Trilogy Book Two: Mansart Builds a School (1959) — Redaktör, vissa utgåvor — 13 exemplar
The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader (2006) — Förord — 8 exemplar
Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region (Revisting New England: the New Regionalism) (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War [2019 TV series] — Berättare — 4 exemplar
Li'L Dan the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story — Förord — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
- Andra namn
- Gates, Skip
- Födelsedag
- 1950-09-16
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Keyser, West Virginia, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Piedmont, West Virginia, USA
Kilimatinde, Tanzania
Ithaca, New York, USA
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Utbildning
- Piedmont High School
Potomac State College
Yale University (BA|History)
Clare College, University of Cambridge (MA, PhD | English Language and Literature) - Yrken
- professor
literary critic
writer
editor - Relationer
- Iglesias Utset, Marial (spouse)
- Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1999)
Harvard University
Phi Beta Kappa - Priser och utmärkelser
- MacArthur Fellowship (1981)
National Humanities Medal (1998)
Jefferson Lecture (2002)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship (1973)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2004)
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Recensioner
The Black Box: Writing the Race av Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Gates writes in a scholarly, but never dry; informative, but never preachy style that gives his subject matter an excellent showing. This book is assembled from lectures Dr. Gates has given (revised many times over the years, in accordance with the kind of questions and responses he has received from his students) in his Harvard African American Studies courses. The basic topic here is how the Black community has worked toward acceptance, respect and identity through literacy and the arts since before the Civil War. He discusses in some detail the many sides of the question "What does it mean to BE African American?", including the evolution of both Black and white stances over time, and the moral, ethical and political complexities of even trying to define what it means to be Black in America. Exceptional, and difficult to process with a single reading, through no fault of the author. Highly recommended.… (mer)
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laytonwoman3rd | Mar 29, 2024 |
laytonwoman3rd | Mar 29, 2024 | 
In the preface to Stony The Road, historian Henry Louis Gates recalls his early interest in Reconstruction during college and how that ultimately led to this book all these years later. Readers and history buffs looking for a detailed and documented — if somewhat dry — look at the period following the Civil War into the early 20th century need look no further than this small but packed book. Gates dissects and explains the history with buckets of primary sources from the famous (W.E.B. DuBois, etc.) to the unknown and leaves no theory unexamined. Not a light read, but definitely worthwhile for those interested in a deep dive into the period.… (mer)
I thoroughly enjoyed this memoir. Rare even tempered insight into how people actually lived and coped with racism in small town America in a time of civil rights transition. Excellent writing, excellent story telling. Absolutely recommended.
This was a book on the DAR Book Club list, and is an expanded version of a lecture the author Henry Louis Gates gave back in 2002 on the subject of poet Phillis Wheatley. Gates covers the trials of Phillis Wheatley -- several, including Founding Fathers and Thomas Jefferson -- had doubts that a young woman brought from Africa aboard a slave ship could not only learn to read and write, but compose poetry as well. Gates also delves into the changing views, both positive and negative, towards Wheatley over the years. Although this is a small volume (90 pages not including bibliography), it is big on substance.… (mer)
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