Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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September 16, 1950 in The United States

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. He is well-known as a literary critic, an editor of literature, and a proponent of black literature and black cultural studies.

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Average rating: 3.85 · 2,631 ratings · 406 reviews · 97 distinct works

	The Classic Slave Narratives by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano 3.99 avg rating — 460 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Colored People 3.83 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave: An American Slave by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Frederick Douglass 3.85 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism 3.72 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Future of the Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cornel West 3.72 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 4.30 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Henry Louis Gates 3.60 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man 3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	America Behind The Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Henry Louis Gates 3.71 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.”
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“The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.”
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“Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.”
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The History Book ...: 1. A. LINCOLN ~ CHAPTERS 1-3 (3 - 42) (11/01/09 - 11/07/09) ~ No spoilers, please	80	124	Jan 03, 2010 10:59pm
Literary Fiction ...: 2010 BCALA Literary Awards	1	18	Feb 26, 2010 11:50am
Book Nook Cafe: What I read in November 2010	83	55	Jan 07, 2011 02:05pm
Great African Reads: Recommendations? Slave narratives	18	45	Apr 28, 2011 07:53pm
Book Nook Cafe: Favorite Fiction of 2010	66	100	May 01, 2011 05:53am
Literary Fiction ...: What It Means To Be 'Black In Latin America'	2	18	Jul 27, 2011 10:37am

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