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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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American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)

Born 16 September 1950

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  • Cover of: The Souls Of Black Folk: Essays And Sketches

    First published in 1903 402 editions in 5 languages — 19 previewable Cover of edition b33010651 Cover of edition soulsblackfolke02boisgoog Cover of edition soulsblackfolke01boisgoog Cover of edition soulsofblackfolk0000dubo_y8a2 Cover of edition soulsofblackpeop0000webd Cover of edition soulsofblackfolk0000webd_i3f0 Cover of edition soulsofblackfolk0000dubo Cover of edition soulsofblackfolk0000dubo_x6w4 Cover of edition unset0000unse_n6t4
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  • Cover of: The suppression of the African slave-trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870.

    First published in 1896 55 editions in 1 language — 5 previewable Cover of edition suppressionofafr00dubo_0 Cover of edition suppressionofafr00dubo Cover of edition suppressionafri00boisgoog Cover of edition suppressionofaf00dubo
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  • Cover of: The Philadelphia Negro: a social study

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  • Cover of: Black reconstruction: an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880

    First published in 1935 43 editions in 1 language — 4 previewable Cover of edition blackreconstruct0000dubo_r7f1 Cover of edition blackreconstruct00dubo Cover of edition blackreconstruct0000dubo_r6o0
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  • Cover of: Black Folk Then and Now. An essay in the history and sociology of the negro race

    First published in 1939 14 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition blackfolkthennow0000dubo
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  • Cover of: The signifying monkey: a theory of Afro-American literary criticism

    First published in 1988 4 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition signifyingmonkey00gate_0
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  • Cover of: The African-American century: how Black Americans have shaped our country

    First published in 2000 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1992 3 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition loosecanonsnotes00gate_959
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    First published in 2003 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Figures in Black: words, signs, and the "racial" self

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  • Cover of: The White Issue: A Special Issue of Transition (Transition 73)

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American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)

Born 16 September 1950
Subjects
African Americans, History, Race relations, African americans, history, Intellectual life, Noirs américains, American literature, Biography, African American authors, Criticism and interpretation, Negers, Social conditions, African Americans in literature, Afro-Americans, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, Auteurs noirs américains, Celebrities, Civil rights, Civilization, Culture, Histoire, Histoire et critique, History and criticism, Intellectual life., Literatur
Places
United States, Africa, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia (Pa.), Philadelphia.., Schwarze
People
Gates Henry Louis, Henry L. Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1950-), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Time
20th century, 19th century, Geschichte 1903

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