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Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
May 3, 2024 · Henry Louis Gates, Jr., American literary critic and scholar known for his pioneering theories of African and African American literature. Learn more about Gates’s life and career, including his various books as well as his TV documentary series, notably Finding Your Roots.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or co-authored twenty-one books and created ...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of America's top experts in African American studies, presents four of these classic narratives that illustrate the real nature of black experience in slavery. Fascinating and powerful, this collection includes four of the best-known examples: the lives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs (alias Linda Brent), Mary ...
Feb 19, 2022 · The New Yorker Interview. How Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Helped Remake the Literary Canon. The scholar has changed the way Black authors get read and the way Black history gets told. By David...
Apr 13, 2021 · Henry Louis Gates Jr. On 'The Black Church' And His Own Bargain With Jesus. April 13, 20211:44 PM ET. Heard on Fresh Air. Terry Gross. When he was 12, Gates made a bargain with Jesus in an...
