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Henry Louis Gates, Jr: A Biography
Meg GreeneThis full-length biography explores the multifaceted—and altogether fascinating—life, opinions, and accomplishments of African American scholar and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. * A chronology of Henry Louis Gates's life * Photographs ...
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader
Henry Louis GatesA primer from one of America's most esteemed and popular intellectuals
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader
Henry Louis Gates Jr.A scholarly primer by the Harvard University intellectual and author of the American Book Award-winning The Signifying Monkey collects three decades of his writings in a range of fields, in a volume that also offers insight into his ...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Henry Louis Gates, Jr."This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.
Black in Latin America
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.So Henry Louis Gates, Jr. set out on a quest to discover how Latin Americans of African descent live now, and how the countries of their acknowledge-or deny-their African past; how the fact of race and African ancestry play themselves out ...
The Future of the Race
Henry Louis Gates, Jr."--New York Daily News "Henry Louis Gates., Jr., and Cornel West are among the most renowned American intellectuals of our time."--New York Times Book Review From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet ...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.In The Trials of Phillis Wheatley, Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the pivotal roles that Wheatley and Jefferson played in shaping the black literary tradition.
Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series
Henry Louis Gates Jr.In addition, I would like to thank family members and a few dear friends whose love and support nourish and sustain me, including my partner, Marial Iglesias Utset; my daughters, Maggie and Liza Gates; and my sonin-law, Aaron Hatley; ...
The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary ...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Gates uses this critical framework to examine several major works of African-American literature--including Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man, and Ishmael Reeds Mumbo Jumbo--revealing how these ...
Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered ...
Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)Shares the family trees and genetic profiles of twelve famous Americans from diverse backgrounds.
Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National ...
Henry Louis GatesThe volume will also feature a preface by the editors, an introductory essay by historian Cary D. Wintz, and 75 illustrations.
Black Imagination and the Middle Passage
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage.
Slave Narratives
Henry Louis GatesPresents a collection of detailed narratives by African American writers who experienced slavery, and shows how their stories had an impact on the social history of America before emancipation.
Black in Latin America
Henry Louis GatesIn Haiti, he tells the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic, and finds out how the slavesOCOs hard fought liberation over Napoleon BonaparteOCOs French Empire became a double-edged sword.
America Behind The Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans
Henry Louis Gates" The book includes thought-provoking essays from Colin Powell, Morgan Freeman, Russell Simmons, Vernon Jordan, Alicia Keys, Bernie Mac, and Quincy Jones.
Toni Morrison: critical perspectives past and present
Henry Louis GatesReviews, essays, and interviews offer critical interpretations of the works of Toni Morrison
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now
TouréDrawing on his own experience, as well as interviews with more than 100 black Americans--including Henry Louis Gates Jr., Malcolm Gladwell, Chuck D, Soledad O-Brien, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Aaron McGruder and more--the author explores ...
The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, ...
Charles OgletreeCharles Ogletree, one of the country's foremost experts on civil rights, uses this incident as a lens through which to explore issues of race, class, and crime, with the goal of creating a more just legal system for all.
Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars
Henry Louis Gates Jr.His is a plea for cultural and intercultural understanding. (You can't understand the world, he observes, if you exclude 90 percent of the world's cultural heritage.) We feel his ideas most strongly voiced in the concluding essay in the ...
Colored People
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.A winner of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Award and the Lillian Smith Prize, Colored People is a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection, a work that extends and deepens our sense of African American history even as it ...
Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African ...
Eric GardnerEd. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks-Higginbotham. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 3:452–54. ———. Witnessing Slavery: The Development of the Antebellum Slave Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Yours
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.For the reader, Finding Oprah’s Roots offers the possibility of an equally rewarding experience. From the Hardcover edition.
The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from ...
Samuel A. Floyd Jr.Inspired by the pioneering work of Sterling Stuckey and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author Samuel A. Floyd, Jr, advocates a new critical approach grounded in the forms and traditions of the music itself.
Finding Your Roots, Season 2: The Official Companion to the ...
Henry Louis Gates Jr.We went all the way back to the seventeenth century, to Anderson's eighth great- grandfather Jan Aertsen Vanderbilt. We do not know precisely what year Jan arrived, but he was Anderson's first Vanderbilt ancestor in the United States.
The African American National Biography: Eight-volume set: ...
More editionsIn the words of AANB editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "These stories, long buried in the dusty archives of history, will never be lost again. And that is what scholarship in the field of African American Studies should be all about."
Langston Hughes, Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, ...
Joseph McLarenGeorge Houston Bass and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (New York: HarperPerennial, 1991) 229-39. The correspondences of Hughes, Hurston, Van Vechten, Spingarn , and Rowena Jelliffe document the Mule Bone controversy. One of the longest of ...
A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion
PreviewThrough Dizzy Gates of Illusion Louis J. Parascandola, John Parascandola. on straight lines and trap doors, but onto these simple ideas, he superimposed “over its skyline a network of wires and light bulbs.” Thompson used electricity to create ...
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