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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: Portable Anna Julia Cooper

    First published in 2022 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Part 1: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque

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  • Cover of: Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

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  • Cover of: Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

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  • Cover of: Reconsidering Race: Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics

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  • Cover of: From Slave to Statesman: The Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Virginia

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American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)

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, African americans, social conditions, Genealogy, Intellectual life, Noirs américains, African americans, intellectual life, Blacks, History and criticism, African Americans in literature, Blacks in art, Encyclopedias, African americans in literature, African americans, folklore, Civil rights, Literary collections

Places

United States, Africa, 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.., Schwarze, Sudan, USA, Virginia, West Virginia, Zanzibar, États-Unis

People

Henry Louis Gates, W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), 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, Jusqu'à 1964, To 1863, To 1964

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  • Henry Louis Gates
  • Skip Gates
  • Gates, Henry, Jr.
  • Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

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