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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates

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24 featured booksHenry Louis Gates

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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    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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    Henry Louis Gates

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    OL21896A

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  • Balthazar

    Representative edition published 2023

    Open Work
  • Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    Representative edition published 2023

    Open Work
  • Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown

    Representative edition published 2022

    Open Work
  • Zora Neale Hurston Essays

    Representative edition published 2022

    Open Work
  • The New Negro Aesthetic

    Representative edition published 2022

    Open Work
  • You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

    Representative edition published 2022

    Open Work
  • Portable Anna Julia Cooper

    Representative edition published 2022

    Open Work
  • The Black Church

    Representative edition published 2021

    Open Work
  • New Negro

    Representative edition published 2021

    Open Work
  • Black Church

    Representative edition published 2021

    Open Work
  • Uncle Tom

    Representative edition published 2021

    Open Work
  • Stony the Road

    Representative edition published 2021

    Open Work
  • Black reconstruction in America 1860-1880

    Representative edition published 2021

    Open Work
  • The omni-Americans

    Representative edition published 2020

    Open Work
  • To Make Their Own Way in the World

    Representative edition published 2020

    Open Work
  • In Search of Our Roots

    Representative edition published 2019

    Open Work
  • Stony the Road

    Representative edition published 2019

    Open Work
  • Dark Sky Rising

    Representative edition published 2019

    Open Work
  • What You Do Is Who You Are

    Representative edition published 2019

    Open Work
  • Harlem

    Representative edition published 2019

    Open Work
  • Making Futures

    Representative edition published 2019

    Open Work
  • The portable nineteenth-century African American women writers

    Representative edition published 2018

    Open Work
  • Picturing Frederick Douglass

    Representative edition published 2018

    Open Work
  • Finding Your Roots

    Representative edition published 2018

    Open Work