Henry Louis Gates: 28 books
by Henry Louis Gates
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings from his many fields of interest...
Loose Canons
Notes on the Culture Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1992
Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William F. Buckley to rail against Stanley Fish and...
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Cornel West
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual...
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
"This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'" As some remarkable men talk about their lives, many perspectives on race and gender emerge. For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates argues, is as imaginary as the...
Faces of America
How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered their Pasts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
As a nation of immigrants, the American experience is vibrantly defined by the diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious heritage of its people. Perhaps because so many of their ancestors migrated to this country relatively recently, Americans are especially concerned with their family trees,...
Tradition and the Black Atlantic
Critical Theory in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination of the discipline's roots and role in contemporary thought. In this conversational tour through the halls of theory, Gates leaps from Richard Wright to Spike...
by Henry Louis Gates
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1988
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient...
Stony the Road
Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
**The New York Times bestseller.
A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the...
Finding Your Roots
The Official Companion to the PBS Series
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the PBS documentary series seen by 30 million people. As Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. shows us, the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical...
Finding Your Roots, Season 2
The Official Companion to the PBS Series
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the hit PBS documentary series. As scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. clearly demonstrates, the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical research...
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.’” Rogers’s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research,...
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas...
Inventing the Truth
The Art and Craft of Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1998
The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, and many more.
For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs—or is thinking about writing one—this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors: Russell Baker, Jill...
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato “processes,” and...
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