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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has discovered what are considered the first books by African-American writers, both of them women, and has published extensively on appreciating African-American literature as part of the Western canon. - Wikipedia

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American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)

Born 16 September 1950

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  • Cover of: The suppression of the African slave-trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870.
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  • Cover of: The Philadelphia Negro: a social study
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  • Cover of: Dusk of Dawn!: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of Race Concept

    First published in 1940 — 17 editions
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  • Cover of: Black folk : then and now: an essay in the history and sociology of the Negro race
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  • Cover of: The African American National Biography: 8-Volume Set

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  • Cover of: Bondwoman's Narrative

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  • Cover of: IN BATTLE FOR PEACE with Comment By Shirley Graham and Essay By Langston Hughes
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  • Cover of: You Dont Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

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  • Cover of: Collected black women's poetry

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  • Cover of: Norton Anthology of African American Literature

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  • Cover of: Africa, its geography, people, and products, and Africa, its place in modern history
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  • Cover of: The Slave's narrative

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  • Cover of: The African-American century: how Black Americans have shaped our country
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  • Cover of: The signifying monkey: a theory of Afro-American literary criticism
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  • Cover of: Figures in Black: words, signs, and the "racial" self
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  • Cover of: America Behind The Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans
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  • Cover of: The future of the race
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  • Cover of: Wonders of the African world
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American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)

Born 16 September 1950

Subjects

African Americans, History, Biography, Race relations, African American authors, American literature, Social conditions, United states, race relations, African americans, history, Civilization, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, African americans, social conditions, Genealogy, Intellectual life, Noirs américains, African americans, intellectual life, Blacks, History and criticism, African Americans in literature, Blacks in art, Encyclopedias, African americans in literature, African americans, folklore, Civil rights, Literary collections

Places

United States, Africa, Abu? Sunbul (Egypt), Egypt, Gedi (Kenya), Great Britain, Jizah (Egypt), Kenya, Khartoum (Sudan), Latin America, Meroe (Extinct city), North Carolina, Nubia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia (Pa.), Philadelphia.., Schwarze, Sudan, USA, Virginia, West Virginia, Zanzibar, États-Unis

People

Henry Louis Gates, W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), Gates Henry Louis, Hannah Crafts, Harriet A. Jacobs (1813-1897), Henry L. Gates, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1950-), Mary Prince, Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), William E. B. Du Bois

Time

19th century, 20th century, 1975-, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Jusqu'à 1964, To 1863, To 1964

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  • Henry Louis Gates
  • Skip Gates
  • Gates, Henry, Jr.
  • Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

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