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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 Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers
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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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