Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Books
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Li'l Dan, the Drummer BoyLi'l Dan, a slave on a Southern plantation, loves to play his drum. When a company of Union soldiers announce that the slaves have been set free, Dan...Read More -
The African-American CenturyONE HUNDRED ORIGINAL PROFILES OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN AMERICANS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Without Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, we would not...Read More
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The Star (Kenya), May 16, 2013
...than ever, he took on the arduous task of learning, for as the distinguished African American scholar Prof Henry Louis Gates, Jr has postulated, in African American tradition, “literacy and freedom are inextricably linked.” The slave who learned to...
Duke University Chronicle, May 16, 2013
...were also presented to human rights activist Marguerite Barankitse; immunologist Max Cooper; national archivist and librarian, David Ferriero; Henry Louis Gates Jr, a literary critic and scholar of African-American literature; William Hunt Gross, founder...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser, May 13, 2013
...Obama as a child. "Or remember the ‘beer summit' — when Obama asked the police officer and professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. to drink a beer at a picnic table and talk over that arrest," coos Darlene Kehaulani Butts, who is on the board of...
Media Web, May 8, 2013
...videos and films are loaded with keen insights explaining what the cultural issues are and why they matter." Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University, adds, "As in the United States, music in general and...
San Jose Mercury News, May 5, 2013
...Hitchens and Salman Rushdie. Following the talk, Sotomayor took part in a conversation on the subject with scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. Sotomayor is an author, as well. Her memoir, "My Beloved World," was published earlier this year. This year's...
DePauw University, May 3, 2013
...be honored at a September 12 ceremony at the Ohio Theatre in Cleveland which will be emceed by Henry Louis Gates Jr., who chaired the jury for the awards program. "The 2013 Anisfield-Wolf winners are exemplars who broaden our vision of race and...
El Paso Times, May 1, 2013
...influenced Obama as a child. "Or remember the 'beer summit' when Obama asked the police officer and professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. to drink a beer at a picnic table and talk over that arrest," coos Darlene Kehaulani Butts, who is on the board of...
Herald Dispatch, May 11, 2013
...strategically identified with blacks in public ways. He stepped up to the plate in defense of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. when a white cop insisted that he prove ownership of the house he occupied. The iconic beer summit followed. And Obama...
The Root, May 11, 2013
...Shirley Chisholm (Thomas J. O'Halloran/Wikimedia Commons) Read more of The Root's coverage of Shirley Chisholm here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and...
Erie Times-News, May 11, 2013
...strategically identified with blacks in public ways. He stepped up to the plate in defense of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. when a white cop insisted that he prove ownership of the house he occupied. The iconic beer summit followed. And Obama...
Broadway World, May 10, 2013
...historical artifact. Only in the last decade has Stowe's seminal novel been reclaimed by scholars, such as Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornell West, as a truly transformative and historical piece for race relations in America. EgoPo will support Stowe's...
Holland Sentinel, May 10, 2013
...strategically identified with blacks in public ways. He stepped up to the plate in defense of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. when a white cop insisted that he prove ownership of the house he occupied. The iconic beer summit followed. And Obama...
Examiner Enterprise, May 10, 2013
...strategically identified with blacks in public ways. He stepped up to the plate in defense of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. when a white cop insisted that he prove ownership of the house he occupied. The iconic beer summit followed. And Obama...
Bucks County Courier Times, May 10, 2013
...strategically identified with blacks in public ways. He stepped up to the plate in defense of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. when a white cop insisted that he prove ownership of the house he occupied. The iconic beer summit followed. And Obama...
