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 de Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers (2010) 148 cópias
Africana, the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999) — Editor — 145 cópias
Africana, the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. The Concise Desk Reference (2003) — Editor — 97 cópias
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Editor — 69 cópias
In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past (2008) 63 cópias
In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative (2003) — Editor; Introdução — 57 cópias
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 cópias
Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race (2022) 28 cópias
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience (5 Volume Set) (2005) 24 cópias
The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 (2007) — Editor — 20 cópias
Black is the color of the cosmos : essays on Afro-American literature and culture, 1942-1981 (1982) 8 cópias
Africa: Its Geography, People, and Products [and] Africa: Its Place in Modern History (1977) — Editor — 8 cópias
Black in Latin America 2 cópias
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers : 10-Volume Supplement Set (1992) — Editor — 2 cópias
Frederick Douglass 2 cópias
Joséphine Baker et la revue nègre: lithographie du tumulte noir par Paul Colin, Paris, 1927 (1998) 2 cópias
African American National Biography: 12-Volume Set (African American History Reference) (2013) 2 cópias
The Black Box: Writing the Race 1 exemplar(es)
And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK 1 exemplar(es)
Finding your roots. Season 8 1 exemplar(es)
The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism: Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism 1 exemplar(es)
African American National Biography: 2-Volume Set (Oxford African American Historical Reference) (2012) 1 exemplar(es)
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader 1 exemplar(es)
Black America since MLK and Still I Rise 1 exemplar(es)
The Black Box: Writing the Race 1 exemplar(es)
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War DVD 1 exemplar(es)
“The Trope of the Talking Book” 1 exemplar(es)
Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African… (1986) 1 exemplar(es)
CRITICAL INQUIRY, VOL. 12, NO. 1 (AUTUMN 1985). "RACE," WRITING, AND DIFFERENCE (1985) 1 exemplar(es)
Finding Your Roots, Season 1: The Official Companion to the PBS Series by Henry Louis Gates Jr (2015-08-30) (1814) 1 exemplar(es)
African American Voices of Triumph 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) — Editor, algumas edições; Introdução, algumas edições — 681 cópias
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Contribuinte — 558 cópias
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Contribuinte — 429 cópias
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 cópias
Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1968) — Editor, algumas edições — 135 cópias
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader (2014) — Editor, algumas edições — 118 cópias
Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture (1995) — Contribuinte, algumas edições — 92 cópias
The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics (1999) — Contribuinte — 78 cópias
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contribuinte — 73 cópias
Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice (2015) — Prefácio — 70 cópias
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art (1994) — Contribuinte — 65 cópias
Black Folk Then and Now: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race (1939) — Editor, algumas edições — 18 cópias
The Black Flame Trilogy Book One: The Ordeal of Mansart (1957) — Editor, algumas edições — 16 cópias
The Black Flame Trilogy Book Two: Mansart Builds a School (1959) — Editor, algumas edições — 13 cópias
The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader (2006) — Prefácio — 8 cópias
Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region (Revisting New England: the New Regionalism) (2007) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War [2019 TV series] — Narrador — 4 cópias
Li'L Dan the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story — Prefácio — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- 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) - Ocupação
- professor
literary critic
writer
editor - Relacionamentos
- Iglesias Utset, Marial (spouse)
- Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1999)
Harvard University
Phi Beta Kappa - Premiações
- 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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- 4.0
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- ISBNs
- 303
- Idiomas
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