HJ

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Bio

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. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or coauthored twenty-two books and created eighteen documentary films, including Finding Your Roots. His six-part PBS documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program-Long Form, as well as a Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and NAACP Image Award.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Books

The Oracle and the Temple

Erwan Dianteill

Little Richard's Witness

Dr. Ahmad Greene-Hayes

The Seer

Farah Jasmine Griffin

Voice of a Century

Anthony Tommasini

Daylight Come

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Flyboy in the Buttermilk

Greg Tate

The Writings of Thomas Smallwood

Thomas Smallwood

¡Es sólo piel, oye!

Nina Jablonski

Putting Myself Together

Jamaica Kincaid

A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit

Noliwe Rooks

Night Flyer

Tiya Miles

The Black Box

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Toni Morrison Reader

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies (LOA #68)

Frederick Douglass

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson

The Mis-education of the Negro

Carter G. Woodson

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper

Shirley Moody-Turner

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

Zora Neale Hurston

The New Negro Aesthetic

Alain Locke

The Black Church

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.