Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Books
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Li'l Dan, the Drummer BoyLi'l Dan, a slave on a Southern plantation, loves to play his drum. When a company of Union soldiers announce that the slaves have been set free, Dan...Read More -
The African-American CenturyONE HUNDRED ORIGINAL PROFILES OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN AMERICANS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Without Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, we would not...Read More
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Virgin Islands Daily News, April 5, 2013
...wrote a book about the arrest of his Harvard colleague called "The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America." He is also the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and taught both Michelle...
Oxford American Magazine, April 5, 2013
...their image of where they came from"a powerful phenomenon that can be witnessed on any given episode of Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s PBS show Finding Your Roots. Secondly, Thompson, who has lived in D.C. since 1989, acknowledges that the quaint, oak-lined...
The Root, March 27, 2013
...this article was not true and wanted some backup. She was right -- as The Root's editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., wrote in a recent Amazing Facts column, the coded quilts are mythical -- but when I found out the context of this issue, I thought...
Christianity Today, February 28, 2013
...and essentially an American story, informed mightily by white history and the literature that reflects it. In The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader, he serves up a collection of his writings as diverse as his interests. The book is divided into eight...
Vacaville Reporter, February 9, 2013
...knowing your family tree," particularly for African-Americans whose roots were severed as a result of slavery, says Henry Louis Gates Jr., a university scholar and host of the Public Broadcasting Service series "Finding Your Roots." Gates believes that...
Black Enterprise, February 1, 2013
...scholar in America. SCHOLAR Cornel West is a part of a small number of black academics – Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates Jr., Columbia University’s Manning Marable, Smithsonian Institution’s Johnnetta Cole, and Asa G. Hilliard at Georgia State....
North Adams Transcript, January 24, 2013
...where they came from, and where their true, spiritual home may lie. Of course, as Haley's friend Henry Louis Gates Jr. told the Boston Globe in 1998, "Most of us feel it's highly unlikely that Alex actually found the village whence his ancestors...
University of Vermont, January 18, 2013
...01-14-2013 National Public Radio Reports UVM Leading the Trend in Banning Bottled Water 01-11-2013 'Intelligence Plus Character' 01-09-2013 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to Lead Martin Luther King Commemoration 01-08-2013 Wynton Marsalis to Deliver 2013...
University of Vermont, January 18, 2013
...01-14-2013 National Public Radio Reports UVM Leading the Trend in Banning Bottled Water 01-11-2013 'Intelligence Plus Character' 01-09-2013 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to Lead Martin Luther King Commemoration 01-08-2013 Wynton Marsalis to Deliver 2013...
Lubbock Online, January 18, 2013
...Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, will speak at 7 p.m. Feb. 7 in...
Kokomo Tribune, January 18, 2013
...Piper, it’s the obsessive urge to collect shiny, metallic vintage camping trailers. January 16, 2013 1 Photo Henry Louis Gates Jr. traces family histories to prove that people are more alike than they are different. January 16, 2013 Kokomo...
Catholic Online, January 17, 2013
..." who "represented the myth of the benevolent paternalism of the white upper class," according to critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. in The New York Times in 1989. Actor Gary Coleman, small due to treatments related to a congenital kidney disease said he had...
Kokomo Tribune, January 17, 2013
...Piper, it’s the obsessive urge to collect shiny, metallic vintage camping trailers. January 16, 2013 1 Photo Henry Louis Gates Jr. traces family histories to prove that people are more alike than they are different. January 16, 2013 Kokomo...
Burlington Press, January 17, 2013
...dancers and actors, all performing tributes to the Civil Rights leaders legacy. 443-6433 or http://go.middlebury.edu/arts. Henry Louis Gates Jr. speaks at University of Vermont, 4-5:30 p.m., Tuesday. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM. Henry Louis Gates Jr. rose to...
