Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Autor(a) de The Classic Slave Narratives
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Image credit: 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.
Séries
Obras por Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers (2010) 148 exemplares
Africana, the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999) — Editor — 142 exemplares
Africana, the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. The Concise Desk Reference (2003) — Editor — 97 exemplares
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Editor — 69 exemplares
In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past (2008) 63 exemplares
In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative (2003) — Editor; Introdução — 56 exemplares
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 2: Black Models and… (1989) — Editor — 40 exemplares
Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race (2022) 28 exemplares
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience (5 Volume Set) (2005) 24 exemplares
The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 (2007) — Editor — 20 exemplares
Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties (1995) 20 exemplares
Africa: Its Geography, People, and Products [and] Africa: Its Place in Modern History (1977) — Editor — 8 exemplares
Black is the color of the cosmos : essays on Afro-American literature and culture, 1942-1981 (1982) 8 exemplares
Black in Latin America 2 exemplares
African American National Biography: 12-Volume Set (African American History Reference) (2013) 2 exemplares
Frederick Douglass 2 exemplares
Joséphine Baker et la revue nègre: lithographie du tumulte noir par Paul Colin, Paris, 1927 (1998) 2 exemplares
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers : 10-Volume Supplement Set (1992) — Editor — 2 exemplares
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 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
Associated Works
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) — Editor, algumas edições; Introdução, algumas edições — 680 exemplares
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Contribuidor — 558 exemplares
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Contribuidor — 429 exemplares
The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano (2005) — Introdução, algumas edições — 337 exemplares
Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History (2014) — Prefácio — 162 exemplares
Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement (1996) — Prefácio — 154 exemplares
The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century (1968) — Editor, algumas edições — 145 exemplares
Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1968) — Editor, algumas edições — 135 exemplares
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader (2014) — Editor, algumas edições — 118 exemplares
Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 91 exemplares
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Contribuidor — 90 exemplares
Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance (1997) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics (1999) — Contribuidor — 78 exemplares
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice (2015) — Prefácio — 70 exemplares
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art (1994) — Contribuidor — 65 exemplares
Black Folk Then and Now: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race (1939) — Editor, algumas edições — 18 exemplares
The Black Flame Trilogy Book One: The Ordeal of Mansart (1957) — Editor, algumas edições — 16 exemplares
The Black Flame Trilogy Book Three: Worlds of Color (1961) — Editor, algumas edições — 15 exemplares
The Black Flame Trilogy Book Two: Mansart Builds a School (1959) — Editor, algumas edições — 13 exemplares
The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader (2006) — Prefácio — 8 exemplares
Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region (Revisting New England: the New Regionalism) (2007) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War [2019 TV series] — Narrador — 4 exemplares
Li'L Dan the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story — Prefácio — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
- Outros nomes
- Gates, Skip
- Data de nascimento
- 1950-09-16
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Keyser, West Virginia, USA
- Locais de residência
- Piedmont, West Virginia, USA
Kilimatinde, Tanzania
Ithaca, New York, USA
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Educação
- Piedmont High School
Potomac State College
Yale University (BA|History)
Clare College, University of Cambridge (MA, PhD | English Language and Literature) - Ocupações
- professor
literary critic
writer
editor - Relações
- Iglesias Utset, Marial (spouse)
- Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1999)
Harvard University
Phi Beta Kappa - Prémios e menções honrosas
- 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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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 113
- Also by
- 80
- Membros
- 9,133
- Popularidade
- #2,632
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 94
- ISBN
- 303
- Línguas
- 3
- Marcado como favorito
- 6