The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

Gates Jr, Henry Louis

ISBN 10: 0465028314 / ISBN 13: 9780465028313

Published by Basic Books, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465028314
• ISBN 13: 9780465028313
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 2W x 6.5H x 9.5D inches 2 inches width by 6.5 inches height by 9.5 inches depth
• Weight: 32.805 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Studies

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Synopsis

Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings from his many fields of interest and expertise.

From his earliest work of literary-historical excavation in 1982, through his current writings on the history and science of African American genealogy, the essays collected here follow his path as historian, theorist, canon-builder, and cultural critic, revealing a thinker of uncommon breadth whose work is uniformly guided by the drive to uncover and restore a history that has for too long been buried and denied.

An invaluable reference, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader will be a singular reflection of one of our most gifted minds.

About the Author

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, including Colored People, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, In Search of Our Roots, and the American Book Award-winning The Signifying Monkey. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.