Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic and the author of over a dozen books.
28 Ebooks by Henry Louis Gates
Robert Heinrich & Deborah Harding: From Slave to Statesman
In the 1980s, Willis Mc Glascoe Carter’s handwritten memoir turned up unexpectedly in the hands of a midwestern antiques dealer. Its twenty-two pages told a fascinating story of a man born into slave …
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€21.99
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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€28.99
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 …
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€31.14
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 …
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€15.99
Henry Louis Gates: 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 …
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€21.99
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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€27.99
Jr. Henry Louis Gates & Hollis Robbins: Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
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€7.92
Maria Diedrich & Henry Louis Gates: Black Imagination and the Middle Passage
This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage. The book analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance, and music it elicited, both on the …
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€103.54
Russell Baker & Jill Ker Conway: Inventing the Truth
The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank Mc Court, Annie Dillard, and many more. For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs—or is thinking …
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€14.87
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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€10.99
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 …
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€7.45
Jean Toomer: Cane (New Edition)
“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 innova …
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€15.99
Henry Louis Gates & Maria Tatar: The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books)
Winner • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) Winner • Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award Holiday Gift Guide Selection • Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis St …
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€39.99
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 bic …
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€33.99
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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€28.99
