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. He is the author of twelve books, including several award-winning works of literary criticism as well as the memoir Colored People; The Future of the Race, co-authored with Cornel West; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man; and Tradition and the Black Atlantic. Gates has hosted ten PBS television specials, including Looking for Lincoln and the two part series, African American Lives, upon which his book In Search of Our Roots was based. He is winner of the 2009 Ralph Lowell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Television and the 2010 NAACP Image Award for Non-Fiction.
42 Ebooks von Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Faces of America
Explores the family trees and genealogical identity of 12 of America’s most extraordinary people As a nation of immigrants, the American experience is vibrantly defined by the diverse racial, ethnic, …
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€31.99
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Black in Latin America
Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries The history of how six Latin American countries acknowledge—or deny—their African past 12 …
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€27.99
Charles T. Davis & Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Slave’s Narrative
These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives …
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Loose Canons
Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Wil …
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€16.51
Henry Box Brown: Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown
In 1849, Henry Brown escaped from slavery by shipping himself in a three-foot-by-two-foot wooden crate from Virginia to an anti-slavery office in Philadelphia. Twenty-seven hours and 350 miles later, …
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€25.41
W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€12.75
W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€20.99
W. E. B. Du Bois: Philadelphia Negro (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€12.65
W. E. B. Du Bois: Philadelphia Negro (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€14.97
W. E. B. Du Bois: Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€24.76
W. E. B. Du Bois: Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€14.93
W. E. B. Du Bois: John Brown (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€12.69
W. E. B. Du Bois: John Brown (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€14.95
W. E. B. Du Bois: Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€24.56
W. E. B. Du Bois: Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€14.97
W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€16.40
W. E. B. Du Bois: Africa, Its Geography, People and Products and Africa-Its Place in Modern History (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€24.74
W. E. B. Du Bois: Africa, Its Geography, People and Products and Africa-Its Place in Modern History (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€14.82
W. E. B. Du Bois: Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€12.72
W. E. B. Du Bois: Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€14.86
W. E. B. Du Bois: World and Africa and Color and Democracy (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€12.65
W. E. B. Du Bois: World and Africa and Color and Democracy (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€14.89
W. E. B. Du Bois: In Battle for Peace (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€24.57
W. E. B. Du Bois: In Battle for Peace (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his foundi …
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€14.93
Lawrence D. Bobo & Lisa Crooms-Robinson: Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present
When newly-liberated African American slaves attempted to enter the marketplace and exercise their rights as citizens of the United States in 1865, few, if any, Americans expected that, a century and …
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€134.61
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Signifying Monkey
The Signifying Monkey is the first book of literary criticism to trace the roots of contemporary Black literature to Afro-American folklore and to the traditions of African languages. As the author e …
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Frederick Douglass: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
This richly illustrated edition of this classic American autobiography sheds new light on Douglass’s famous text for a new generation of readers. Famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass pub …
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€24.99
David Pilgrim: Understanding Jim Crow
For many people, especially those who came of age after landmark civil rights legislation was passed, it is difficult to understand what it was like to be an African American living under Jim Crow se …
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€9.99
David Pilgrim: Understanding Jim Crow
Understanding Jim Crow introduces readers to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, a collection of more than 10, 000 contemptible collectibles that are used to engage visitors in intense and int …
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€7.69
Henry Box Brown: Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown
In 1849, Henry Brown escaped from slavery by shipping himself in a three-foot-by-two-foot wooden crate from Virginia to an anti-slavery office in Philadelphia. Twenty-seven hours and 350 miles later, …
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€25.58
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Loose Canons
Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Wil …
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€16.57
William Sanders Scarborough: Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough
An important autobiography that reveals the story of William Sanders Scarborough who rose out of slavery to become a renowned classical philologist and African American icon. "If W.E.B Du Bois, …
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€32.14
Zora Neale Hurston: You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
‚One of the greatest writers of our time.‘ Toni Morrison’You Don’t Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston … her words make it impossible for readers to consider her anyth …
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Henry Louis Gates: Finding Your Roots
Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the PBS documentary series seen by 30 million peopl …
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€14.99
Adena Spingarn: Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beec …
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Joshua Bassett & Curtis L. Ivery: America’s Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics
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 Americas Urban Cr …
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Henry Louis Gates & Donald Yacovone: Lincoln on Race and Slavery
From acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the most comprehensive collection of Lincoln’s writings on race and slavery Generations of Americans have debated the meaning of Abraham Lincoln’s views …
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Henry Louis Gates & Gene Andrew Jarrett: The New Negro
When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the ‚New Negro‘ around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were …
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Celeste-Marie Bernier & John Stauffer: Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American
Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize A landmark and collectible volume—beautifully produced in duotone—that canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography. Commemorating the bicen …
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Finding Your Roots
Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the PBS documentary series seen by 30 million peopl …
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€19.21
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Finding Your Roots, Season 2
Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the hit PBS documentary series. As scholar Henry Lo …
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€25.71
Martin Kilson: Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880 2012
After Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves largely excluded from politics, higher education, and the professions. Martin Kilson explores how a modern African American intelligentsia dev …
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