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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)

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The suppression of the African slave-trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870.

by W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Saidiya V. Hartman
First published in 1896
55 editions, 6 ebooks
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The Philadelphia Negro: a social study

by W. E. B. Du Bois, Isabel Eaton, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Lawrence Bobo, and Elijah Anderson
First published in 1889
48 editions, 4 ebooks
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Black Reconstruction; An Essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt

by W. E. B. Du Bois, Eric Foner, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
First published in 1935
43 editions, 5 ebooks
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Dusk of Dawn!: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of Race Concept

by W. E. B. Du Bois, Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Irene Diggs First published in 1940
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Black folk : then and now: an essay in the history and sociology of the Negro race

by W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Wilson J. Moses
First published in 1939
14 editions, 3 ebooks
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The African American National Biography: 8-Volume Set

by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. First published in 2008
13 editions

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Bondwoman's Narrative

by Hannah Crafts, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Anna Deavere Smith First published in 2002
9 editions

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IN BATTLE FOR PEACE with Comment By Shirley Graham and Essay By Langston Hughes

by W. E. B. Du Bois and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
First published in 1952
8 editions, 2 ebooks
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You Dont Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

by Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Genevieve West, and Margaret Genevieve West First published in 2022
7 editions

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Collected black women's poetry

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. First published in 1988
6 editions

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Norton Anthology of African American Literature

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O'Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and 1 other First published in 2014
6 editions, 1 ebook

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Africa, its geography, people, and products, and Africa, its place in modern history

by W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong First published in 1930
6 editions, 1 ebook
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Colored people

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
First published in 1994
6 editions, 2 ebooks

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The Slave's narrative

by Davis, Charles T. and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. First published in 1990
5 editions

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The signifying monkey: a theory of Afro-American literary criticism

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
First published in 1988
4 editions, 2 ebooks
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The African-American century: how Black Americans have shaped our country

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. First published in 2000
4 editions, 1 ebook
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Loose canons: notes on the culture wars

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. First published in 1992
3 editions, 1 ebook
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Figures in Black: words, signs, and the "racial" self

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
First published in 1987
3 editions, 2 ebooks

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Wonders of the African world

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. First published in 1999
3 editions, 1 ebook

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Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. First published in 2021
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American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)

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OLID: OL21896A
Amazon ID: B000APNYEO
GoodReads: 3862441
ISNI: 0000000121409479
IMDb: nm1326945
Library of Congress Names: n81146304
Storygraph: fb788056-2ba4-4b21-a8c0-a216c6a45019
VIAF: 79046442
Wikidata: Q561458
Inventaire.io: wd:Q561458
YouTube: @HenryLouisGatesJr

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Gates, Henry, Jr.
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