Henry Louis Gates: 28 books
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance
Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
Richard Bruce Nugent (1906–1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the center of the Harlem Renaissance. Protégé of Alain Locke, roommate of Wallace Thurman, and friend of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, the precocious Nugent stood for many...
by Jean Toomer, Rudolph P. Byrd, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
“A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing. . . . This book should be on all readers’ and writers’ desks and in their minds.”—Maya Angelou
First published in 1923, Jean Toomer’s Cane is an innovative literary work—part drama, part poetry, part fiction—powerfully evoking black...
In Search of Our Roots
How l9 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Unlike most white Americans who, if they are so inclined, can search their ancestral records, identifying who among their forebears was the first to set foot on this country’s shores, most African Americans, in tracing their family’s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was...
Slave Narratives (LOA #114)
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw / Olaudah Equiano / Nat Turner / Frederick Douglass / William Wells Brown / Henry Bibb / Sojourner Truth / William and Ell
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2000
The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage.
Included in the volume: Narrative of the Most...
by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Tonya Bolden
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the renowned Harvard scholar delivers a book that...
America Behind The Color Line
Dialogues with African Americans
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Renowned scholar and "New York Times" bestselling author Gates delivers a stirring and authoritative companion to the major new PBS documentary "America Behind the Color Line." The book includes thought-provoking essays from Colin Powell, Morgan Freeman, Russell Simmons, Vernon Jordan, Alicia Keys, Bernie Mac, and Quincy Jones.
by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
"In approaching this vast topic, Gates displays disarming modesty and enthusiasm; his tone is that of a letter from a perceptive friend who can't wait to share what he's learned." -The New Yorker 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0...
by Adam Bradley, Andrew DuBois, Henry Louis Gates
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Donald Yacovone
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is the companion book to the six-part, six-hour documentary of the same name. The series is the first to air since 1968 that chronicles the full sweep of 500 years of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent and the...
America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics
Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence...
Finding Oprah's Roots
Finding Yours
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Finding Oprah’s Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by history’s unsung but also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past. A roadmap through the intricacies of public documents and online databases, the book...
Reconsidering Race
Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Race is one of the most elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know it when we see it, it's not an easy concept to define. Social science literature has argued that race is a Western concept that emerged with the birth of modern imperialism, whether in the sixteenth century (the Age...
by Solomon Northup, Henry Louis Gates
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
**The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong’o, and directed by Steve McQueen
New York Times bestseller**
“I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It...
by Jack Halberstam, Imani Perry, Christopher Freeburg
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This issue of Profession contains Russell A. Berman's introduction to his Presidential Forum, Language, Literature, Learning, held at the 2012 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Christopher Freeburg, Jack Halberstam, B. Venkat Mani, and Imani Perry. To mark...
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