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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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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Born 16 September 1950

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  • Cover of: The Souls of Black Folk

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  • Cover of: The suppression of the African slave-trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870.

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  • Cover of: The Philadelphia Negro: a social study

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  • Cover of: Black Folk Then and Now. An essay in the history and sociology of the negro race

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  • Cover of: Six women's slave narratives

    First published in 1988 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Africa, its geography, people, and products, and Africa, its place in modern history

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  • Cover of: The signifying monkey: a theory of Afro-American literary criticism

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Born 16 September 1950

Subjects

African Americans, History, Biography, Race relations, African American authors, American literature, Social conditions, United states, race relations, African americans, history, Civilization, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, Intellectual life, Noirs américains, African americans, social conditions, Genealogy, African americans, intellectual life, Blacks, History and criticism, African Americans in literature, Blacks in art, Civil rights, Encyclopedias, African americans in literature, African americans, folklore, American literature, african american authors

Places

United States, Africa, Schwarze, Abu? Sunbul (Egypt), Egypt, Gedi (Kenya), Great Britain, Jizah (Egypt), Kenya, Khartoum (Sudan), Latin America, Meroe (Extinct city), North Carolina, Nubia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia (Pa.), Philadelphia.., Sudan, USA, Virginia, West Virginia, Zanzibar, États-Unis

People

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), Henry Louis Gates, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), Gates Henry Louis, Hannah Crafts, Harriet A. Jacobs (1813-1897), Henry L. Gates, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1950-), Mary Prince, Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), William E. B. Du Bois

Time

19th century, 20th century, 1975-, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Geschichte 1903, Jusqu'à 1964, To 1863, To 1964

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  • Skip Gates
  • Gates, Henry, Jr.
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