Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Why Fear Is Driving the Current Era of Racial Backlash

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is one of the most influential scholars of Black history and literature in the United States. He’s the ...
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts ...
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Langston Hughes : critical perspectives past and present / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K.A. Appiah

Weary blues (1926) / Countee Cullen, Jessie Fauset -- Fine clothes to the Jew (1927) / DuBose Heyward, Margaret Larkin -- Not without laughter (1930) / V.F. Calverton, Sterling A. Brown -- Ways of ...
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Life upon these shores : looking at African American history, 1513-2008 / Henry Louis Gates

"Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated, landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the ...
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

This has been a bruising time for the African-American community—as bruising as any in recent memory. The tragic deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Sandra ...