Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Autor/a de The Classic Slave Narratives
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: 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.
Sèrie
Obres de Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers (2010) 148 exemplars
Africana, the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999) — Editor — 142 exemplars
Africana, the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. The Concise Desk Reference (2003) — Editor — 97 exemplars
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Editor — 69 exemplars
In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past (2008) 63 exemplars
In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative (2003) — Editor; Introducció — 56 exemplars
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 exemplars
Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race (2022) 28 exemplars
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience (5 Volume Set) (2005) 24 exemplars
The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 (2007) — Editor — 20 exemplars
Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties (1995) 20 exemplars
Africa: Its Geography, People, and Products [and] Africa: Its Place in Modern History (1977) — Editor — 8 exemplars
Black is the color of the cosmos : essays on Afro-American literature and culture, 1942-1981 (1982) 8 exemplars
Black in Latin America 2 exemplars
African American National Biography: 12-Volume Set (African American History Reference) (2013) 2 exemplars
Frederick Douglass 2 exemplars
Joséphine Baker et la revue nègre: lithographie du tumulte noir par Paul Colin, Paris, 1927 (1998) 2 exemplars
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers : 10-Volume Supplement Set (1992) — Editor — 2 exemplars
The Black Box: Writing the Race 1 exemplars
And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK 1 exemplars
Finding your roots. Season 8 1 exemplars
African American National Biography: 2-Volume Set (Oxford African American Historical Reference) (2012) 1 exemplars
Black America since MLK and Still I Rise 1 exemplars
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War DVD 1 exemplars
“The Trope of the Talking Book” 1 exemplars
Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African… (1986) 1 exemplars
Finding Your Roots, Season 1: The Official Companion to the PBS Series by Henry Louis Gates Jr (2015-08-30) (1814) 1 exemplars
African American Voices of Triumph 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) — Editor, algunes edicions; Introducció, algunes edicions — 680 exemplars
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Col·laborador — 558 exemplars
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Col·laborador — 429 exemplars
The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano (2005) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 337 exemplars
The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century (1968) — Editor, algunes edicions — 145 exemplars
Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1968) — Editor, algunes edicions — 135 exemplars
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader (2014) — Editor, algunes edicions — 118 exemplars
Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture (1995) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 91 exemplars
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Col·laborador — 90 exemplars
Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance (1997) — Col·laborador; Col·laborador — 82 exemplars
The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics (1999) — Col·laborador — 78 exemplars
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Col·laborador — 73 exemplars
Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice (2015) — Pròleg — 70 exemplars
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art (1994) — Col·laborador — 65 exemplars
Black Folk Then and Now: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race (1939) — Editor, algunes edicions — 18 exemplars
The Black Flame Trilogy Book One: The Ordeal of Mansart (1957) — Editor, algunes edicions — 16 exemplars
The Black Flame Trilogy Book Three: Worlds of Color (1961) — Editor, algunes edicions — 15 exemplars
The Black Flame Trilogy Book Two: Mansart Builds a School (1959) — Editor, algunes edicions — 13 exemplars
The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader (2006) — Pròleg — 8 exemplars
Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region (Revisting New England: the New Regionalism) (2007) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War [2019 TV series] — Narrador — 4 exemplars
Li'L Dan the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story — Pròleg — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
- Altres noms
- Gates, Skip
- Data de naixement
- 1950-09-16
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Keyser, West Virginia, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Piedmont, West Virginia, USA
Kilimatinde, Tanzania
Ithaca, New York, USA
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Educació
- Piedmont High School
Potomac State College
Yale University (BA|History)
Clare College, University of Cambridge (MA, PhD | English Language and Literature) - Professions
- professor
literary critic
writer
editor - Relacions
- Iglesias Utset, Marial (spouse)
- Organitzacions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1999)
Harvard University
Phi Beta Kappa - Premis i honors
- 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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Ressenyes
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 113
- També de
- 80
- Membres
- 9,134
- Popularitat
- #2,630
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 94
- ISBN
- 303
- Llengües
- 3
- Preferit
- 6