Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Autore di The Classic Slave Narratives
Sull'Autore
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 altro 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 meno
Fonte dell'immagine: 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.
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Opere di Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers (2010) 148 copie
Africana, the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999) — A cura di — 145 copie
Africana, the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. The Concise Desk Reference (2003) — A cura di — 97 copie
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — A cura di — 69 copie
In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative (2003) — A cura di; Introduzione — 57 copie
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 2: Black Models and… (1989) — A cura di — 40 copie
Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race (2022) 28 copie
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience (5 Volume Set) (2005) 24 copie
The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 (2007) — A cura di — 20 copie
Black is the color of the cosmos : essays on Afro-American literature and culture, 1942-1981 (1982) 8 copie
Africa: Its Geography, People, and Products [and] Africa: Its Place in Modern History (1977) — A cura di — 8 copie
Black in Latin America 2 copie
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers : 10-Volume Supplement Set (1992) — A cura di — 2 copie
Frederick Douglass 2 copie
Joséphine Baker et la revue nègre: lithographie du tumulte noir par Paul Colin, Paris, 1927 (1998) 2 copie
African American National Biography: 12-Volume Set (African American History Reference) (2013) 2 copie
The Black Box: Writing the Race 1 copia
Finding your roots. Season 8 1 copia
African American National Biography: 2-Volume Set (Oxford African American Historical Reference) (2012) 1 copia
The Black Box: Writing the Race 1 copia
“The Trope of the Talking Book” 1 copia
Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African… (1986) 1 copia
Opere correlate
12 anni schiavo: la straordinaria storia vera di Solomon Northup (1853) — Postfazione, alcune edizioni — 3,962 copie
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) — A cura di, alcune edizioni; Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 681 copie
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Collaboratore — 558 copie
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Collaboratore — 429 copie
The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano (2005) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 337 copie
The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century (1968) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 145 copie
Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1968) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 135 copie
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader (2014) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 118 copie
Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 92 copie
The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics (1999) — Collaboratore — 78 copie
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Collaboratore — 73 copie
Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice (2015) — Prefazione — 71 copie
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art (1994) — Collaboratore — 65 copie
Black Folk Then and Now: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race (1939) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 18 copie
The Black Flame Trilogy Book One: The Ordeal of Mansart (1957) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 16 copie
The Black Flame Trilogy Book Two: Mansart Builds a School (1959) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 13 copie
The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader (2006) — Prefazione — 8 copie
Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region (Revisting New England: the New Regionalism) (2007) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War [2019 TV series] — Narratore — 4 copie
Li'L Dan the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story — Prefazione — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
- Altri nomi
- Gates, Skip
- Data di nascita
- 1950-09-16
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Keyser, West Virginia, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Piedmont, West Virginia, USA
Kilimatinde, Tanzania
Ithaca, New York, USA
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Istruzione
- Piedmont High School
Potomac State College
Yale University (BA|History)
Clare College, University of Cambridge (MA, PhD | English Language and Literature) - Attività lavorative
- professor
literary critic
writer
editor - Relazioni
- Iglesias Utset, Marial (spouse)
- Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1999)
Harvard University
Phi Beta Kappa - Premi e riconoscimenti
- 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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Statistiche
- Opere
- 114
- Opere correlate
- 80
- Utenti
- 9,165
- Popolarità
- #2,615
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 94
- ISBN
- 303
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 6