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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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in Keyser, WV, The United States

September 16, 1950

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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: 4.1 · 32,372 ratings · 3,741 reviews · 233 distinct works • Similar authors

	Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 3,594 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Classic Slave Narratives-paperback by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano 4.32 avg rating — 3,135 ratings — published 1987 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Nellie Y. McKay (Editor), William L. Andrews (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 1,128 ratings — published 1996 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Colored People: A Memoir 4.11 avg rating — 1,018 ratings — published 1994 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song 4.08 avg rating — 980 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Tonya Bolden 3.98 avg rating — 643 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism 3.98 avg rating — 435 ratings — published 1988 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers 3.94 avg rating — 402 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	100 Amazing Facts About the Negro 4.29 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black in Latin America 4.29 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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