@film {1563471, title = {Finding Your Roots, Season 10}, year = {2024}, publisher = {Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes).}, abstract = {Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season of FINDING YOUR ROOTS. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides twenty-one compelling guests-including three of his loyal viewers--deep into their family trees, revealing surprising stories that transcend borders, illuminating an American root system fortified by its diversity.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1563466, title = {GOSPEL}, year = {2024}, publisher = {Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (four, one-hour episodes)}, abstract = {From acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Gospel explores Black spirituality in sermon and song. From the blues to hip-hop, African Americans have been the driving force of sonic innovation for over a century. While musical styles come and go, there is one sound that has been a constant source of strength, courage, and wisdom from the pulpit to the choir lofts on any given Sunday: gospel.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1563316, title = {The Black Box: Writing the Race}, year = {2024}, publisher = {Penguin Random House}, organization = {Penguin Random House}, abstract = {A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country{\textquoteright}s history.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1563476, title = {Finding Your Roots, Season 9}, year = {2023}, publisher = {Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes).}, abstract = {Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season of FINDING YOUR ROOTS. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides twenty-one influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing surprising stories of forgotten ancestors that transcend borders, illuminating an American root system fortified by its diversity.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1563336, title = {The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art, Book 1: From Colony to Nation}, year = {2023}, publisher = {Harvard University Press}, organization = {Harvard University Press}, abstract = {The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art\ is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation of people of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, some twelve million of whom were forcibly imported into the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade.}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and David Bindman and Alejandro de la Fuente} } @film {1563496, title = {Frederick Douglass in Five Speeches}, year = {2022}, publisher = {Executive producer. Feature-length documentary, HBO: February 2022.}, abstract = {Famed anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass{\textquoteright} words about racial injustice are brought to life in this documentary.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1563491, title = {Finding Your Roots, Season 8}, year = {2022}, publisher = {Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes).}, abstract = {Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season of FINDING YOUR ROOTS. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides twenty-one influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing surprising stories of love, hardship, and triumph that transcend borders and merge to form an American root system fortified by its diversity.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1563486, title = {Making Black America: Through the Grapevine}, year = {2022}, publisher = {writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (four, one-hour episodes).}, abstract = {Professor Gates, with directors Stacey L. Holman and Shayla Harris, chronicle the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people beyond the reach of the {\textquotedblleft}White gaze.{\textquotedblright} The series recounts the establishment of the Prince Hall Masons in 1775 through the formation of all-Black towns and business districts, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, destinations for leisure and the social media phenomenon of Black Twitter.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1563481, title = {Black History in Two Minutes (or So)}, year = {2022}, publisher = {Writer, host, and executive producer. Web series. Series Two and Three, 2022-2023.}, abstract = {It{\textquoteright}s Black History delivered in short, lively, fact-packed stories accessible to people of all ages and education levels. It{\textquoteright}s fast, accurate U.S. history describing major historical events and introducing less well-known experiences involving Black Americans. The topics range from recent events to the founding of the United States of America. Heroes of the Civil Rights movement are covered, as are some of the more obscure figures in the fight for equality.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1563341, title = {You Don{\textquoteright}t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston}, year = {2022}, publisher = {Amistad}, organization = {Amistad}, abstract = {You Don{\textquoteright}t Know Us Negroes\ is the quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world{\textquoteright}s most celebrated writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Spanning more than three decades and penned during the backdrop of the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, Montgomery bus boycott, desegregation of the military, and school integration, Hurston{\textquoteright}s writing articulates the beauty and authenticity of Black life as only she could.\ }, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Genevieve West} } @book {1563311, title = {Who{\textquoteright}s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race}, year = {2022}, publisher = {Harvard University Press}, organization = {Harvard University Press}, abstract = {The first translation and publication of sixteen submissions to the notorious eighteenth-century Bordeaux essay contest on the cause of black skin--an indispensable chronicle of the rise of scientifically based, anti-Black racism.}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran} } @film {1563526, title = {Finding Your Roots, Season 7}, year = {2021}, publisher = {Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes).}, abstract = {Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season of FINDING YOUR ROOTS. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing surprising stories of love, hardship, and triumph that transcend borders and merge to form an American root system fortified by its diversity.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1563521, title = {Finding Your Roots, Season 7}, year = {2021}, publisher = {Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes).}, abstract = {Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season of FINDING YOUR ROOTS. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing surprising stories of love, hardship, and triumph that transcend borders and merge to form an American root system fortified by its diversity.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1563511, title = {Black Art in the Absence of Light}, year = {2021}, publisher = {Executive producer: Feature-length documentary, HBO: February 2021.}, abstract = {A look at the indelible contributions of some of the foremost African American artists in today{\textquoteright}s contemporary art world.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1563506, title = {The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song}, year = {2021}, publisher = {Writer, host, and executive producer: Four-hour series, PBS: February 2021.}, abstract = {Trace the history of the Black Church in America. From enslavement to today, the series explores key events shaping an institution at the heart of African American communities on the frontlines of hope and change.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1563501, title = {Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)}, year = {2021}, publisher = {Executive producer. Feature-length documentary, NBCUniversal, June 2021.}, abstract = {A journey across the United States to explore the story of the Civil War of Americans from President Obama{\textquoteright}s final year in office through the present.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1563351, title = {W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction}, year = {2021}, publisher = {Library of America}, organization = {Library of America}, abstract = {Upon its publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois{\textquoteright}s\ Black Reconstruction\ offered a radical new assessment of the post{\textendash}Civil War era, a time when African American progress was met with a white supremacist backlash and, ultimately, the unjust social order of Jim Crow. Previously cast as a misguided, even villainous effort to impose an inverted and {\textquotedblleft}unnatural{\textquotedblright} racial hierarchy on the defeated South, Reconstruction was for Du Bois nothing less than a milestone in the course of human history, {\textquotedblleft}the finest effort to achieve democracy for the working millions which this world had ever seen.{\textquotedblright}}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Eric Foner} } @book {1563321, title = {The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song}, year = {2021}, publisher = {Penguin Books}, organization = {Penguin Books}, abstract = {From the\ New York Times\ bestselling author of\ Stony the Road\ and\ The Black Box,and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1563541, title = {Reconstruction: America after the Civil War}, year = {2019}, publisher = {Writer, host, and executive producer. Four-hour series, PBS, April 9 {\textendash} April 16, 2019.}, abstract = {A comprehensive and compelling history of the United States immediately following the Civil War.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1563536, title = {Who Killed Malcolm X?}, year = {2019}, publisher = {Executive producer. Six-hour series, Fusion TV, September 30, 2019 / Netflix, January 17, 2020.}, abstract = {Activist Abdur-Rahman Muhammad begins his own investigation into the perplexing details surrounding the assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1563531, title = {Finding Your Roots, Season 6}, year = {2019}, publisher = {Writer, host, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes): 2019-2021.}, abstract = {The sixth season of FINDING YOUR ROOTS features 27 fascinating new guests who are game-changers in their fields{\textemdash}with family histories that illustrate the power and diversity of the human experience.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1563331, title = {Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow}, year = {2019}, publisher = {Scholastic}, organization = {Scholastic}, abstract = {This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history{\textquoteright}s most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the renowned Harvard scholar delivers a book that is illuminating and timely.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Tonya Bolden} } @book {1563326, title = {Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow}, year = {2019}, publisher = {Penguin Books}, organization = {Penguin Books}, abstract = {The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked {\textquotedblleft}a new birth of freedom{\textquotedblright} in Lincoln{\textquoteright}s America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.{\textquoteright}s America? In this new book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African-American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era to the {\textquotedblleft}nadir{\textquotedblright} of the African-American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1378427, title = {Finding Your Roots, Season 5}, year = {2019}, publisher = {Writer, narrator, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes): Beginning January 8, 2019.}, abstract = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps leading artists, politicians and others discover the surprising stories within their own family trees. Each episode weaves together stories from cutting-edge DNA analysis and old school genealogical detective work.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1378426, title = {Reconstruction: America after the Civil War}, year = {2019}, publisher = {Writer, host, and executive producer. Four-hour series, PBS, April 9 {\textendash} April 16, 2019.}, abstract = {

Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents a vital new four-hour documentary series on\ Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. The series explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change. The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the meaning and makeup of our democracy, with millions of former slaves and free black people seeking out their rightful place as equal citizens under the law. Though tragically short-lived, this bold democratic experiment was, in the words of W. E. B. Du Bois, a {\textquoteleft}brief moment in the sun{\textquoteright} for African Americans, when they could advance, and achieve, education, exercise their right to vote, and run for and win public office.

}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1378473, title = {Albert Murray: Collected Novels \& Poems}, year = {2018}, publisher = {Library of America}, organization = {Library of America}, abstract = {One of the leading cultural critics of his generation, Albert Murray was also the author of an extraordinary quartet of semi-autobiographical novels, vivid impressionistic portraits of black life in the Deep South in the 1920s and {\textquoteright}30s and in prewar New York City.\ Train Whistle Guitar\ (1974) introduces Murray{\textquoteright}s recurring narrator and protagonist, Scooter, a "Southern jackrabbit raised in a briarpatch" too nimble ever to receive a scratch. Scooter{\textquoteright}s education in books, music, and the blue-steel bent-note blues-ballad realities of American life continues in\ The Spyglass Tree\ (1991), Murray{\textquoteright}s "Portrait of the Artist as a Tuskegee Undergraduate."\ The Seven League Boots\ (1996) follows Scooter as he becomes a bass player in a touring band not unlike Duke Ellington{\textquoteright}s, and\ The Magic Keys\ (2005), in which Scooter at last finds his true vocation as a writer in Greenwich Village, is an elegaic reverie on an artist{\textquoteright}s life. Editors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Paul Devlin round out the volume with a selection of Murray{\textquoteright}s remarkable poems, including 11 unpublished pieces from his notebooks, and two rare examples of his work as a short story writer.}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Paul Devlin} } @book {1378476, title = {Twelve Years a Slave: Norton Critical Edition}, year = {2017}, publisher = {W.W. Norton}, organization = {W.W. Norton}, abstract = {This Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup{\textquoteright}s harrowing autobiography is based on the 1853 first edition. It is accompanied by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin Burke{\textquoteright}s introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes.}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin M. Burke} } @book {1378475, title = {The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers}, year = {2017}, publisher = {Penguin Classics}, organization = {Penguin Classics}, abstract = {The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers\ is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War. Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections of memoir, poetry, and essays on feminism, education, and the legacy of African American women writers. Many of these pieces engage with social movements like abolition, women{\textquoteright}s suffrage, temperance, and civil rights, but the thematic center is the intellect and personal ambition of African American women. The diverse selection includes well-known writers like Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts, and Harriet Jacobs, as well as lesser-known writers like Ella Sheppard, who offers a firsthand account of life in the world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers. Taken together, these incredible works insist that the writing of African American women writers be read, remembered, and addressed.}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hollis Robbins} } @book {1378474, title = {The Annotated African American Folktales}, year = {2017}, publisher = {Liveright}, organization = {Liveright}, abstract = {

These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature.

Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before,\ The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the tradition\ of such classics as\ Arthur\ Huff Fauset{\textquoteright}s\ "Negro Folk Tales from the South"\ (1927),\ Zora\ Neale Hurston{\textquoteright}s\ Mules and Men\ (1935), and\ Virginia Hamilton{\textquoteright}s\ The People Could Fly\ (1985),\ acclaimed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar assemble a groundbreaking collection of folktales, myths, and legends that revitalizes a vibrant African American past to produce the most comprehensive and ambitious collection of African American folktales ever published in American literary history. Arguing for the value of these deceptively simple stories as part of a sophisticated, complex, and heterogeneous cultural heritage, Gates and Tatar show how these remarkable stories deserve a place\ alongside the classic works of African American literature, and American literature more broadly.

Opening with two introductory essays and twenty seminal African tales as historical background, Gates and Tatar present nearly 150 African American stories, among them familiar Brer Rabbit classics, but also stories like "The Talking Skull" and "Witches Who Ride," as well as out-of-print tales from the 1890s{\textquoteright}\ Southern Workman. Beginning with the figure of Anansi, the African trickster, master of improvisation--a spider who plots and weaves in scandalous ways--The Annotated African American Folktales\ then goes on to draw Caribbean and Creole tales into the orbit of the folkloric canon. It retrieves\ stories not seen since\ the Harlem Renaissance\ and\ brings back\ archival tales of\ "Negro folklore" that Booker T. Washington proclaimed\ had\ emanated from a "grapevine" that existed even\ before the American Revolution,\ stories brought over by slaves who had survived the Middle Passage. Furthermore, Gates and Tatar{\textquoteright}s volume not only defines a new canon but reveals how these folktales were hijacked and misappropriated in previous incarnations, egregiously by Joel Chandler Harris, a Southern newspaperman, as well as by Walt Disney, who cannibalized and capitalized on Harris{\textquoteright}s volumes by creating cartoon characters drawn from this African American lore.

}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Maria Tatar} } @film {1378430, title = {Birth of a Movement}, year = {2017}, publisher = {Executive producer. PBS, February 6, 2017.}, abstract = {

In 1915, African American newspaper editor and activist William M. Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith{\textquoteright}s notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. The Birth of a Movement features Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and DJ Spooky.

}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1378429, title = {Africa{\textquoteright}s Great Civilizations}, year = {2017}, publisher = {Writer, narrator, and executive producer. Six-hour series, PBS, February 27-March 1, 2017.}, abstract = {In his new six-hour series, Africa{\textquoteright}s Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of history, from the origins, on the African continent, of art, writing and civilization itself, through the millennia in which Africa and Africans shaped not only their own rich civilizations, but also the wider world.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1378428, title = {Finding Your Roots, Season 4}, year = {2017}, publisher = {Writer, narrator, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes): October 3 {\textendash} December 19, 2017.}, abstract = {Season four of Finding Your Roots series moves fluidly from Asia and Africa to Europe and the Americas, uniting us all through emotional moments that enrich and enlighten{\textemdash}encouraging us to look at our world through a wider, more inclusive lens.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134067, title = {100 Amazing Facts about the Negro}, year = {2017}, publisher = {Pantheon}, organization = {Pantheon}, abstract = {The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers{\textquoteright}s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as {\textquotedblleft}A Negro {\textquoteleft}Believe It or Not.{\textquoteright}{\textquotedblright} Rogers{\textquoteright}s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research, to a people too long starved on the lie that they were worth nothing. For African Americans of the Jim Crow era, Rogers{\textquoteright}s was their first black history teacher. But Rogers was not always shy about embellishing the {\textquotedblleft}facts{\textquotedblright} and minimizing ambiguity; neither was he above shock journalism now and then.

With {\'e}lan and erudition{\textemdash}and with winning enthusiasm{\textemdash}Henry Louis Gates, Jr. gives us a corrective yet loving homage to Roger{\textquoteright}s work.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1378528, title = {Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography}, year = {2016}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, abstract = {From Toussaint L{\textquoteright}Ouverture to Pel{\'e}, the\ Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography\ will provide a comprehensive overview of the lives of Caribbeans and Afro-Latin Americans who are historically significant. The project will be unprecedented in scale, covering the entire Caribbean, and the Afro-descended populations throughout Latin America, including people who spoke and wrote Creole, Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. It will also encompass the full scope of history, with entries on figures from the first forced slave migrations in the sixteenth centuries, to entries on living persons such as the Haitian musician and politician Wyclef Jean and the Cuban author and poet Nancy Morej{\'o}n. Individuals will be drawn from all walks of life including philosophers, politicians, activists, entertainers, scholars, poets, scientists, religious figures, kings, and everyday people whose lives have contributed to the history of the Caribbean and Latin America.}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Franklin W. Knight} } @book {1378480, title = {The Portable Frederick Douglass}, year = {2016}, publisher = {Penguin Classics}, organization = {Penguin Classics}, abstract = {This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as urgently as ever. Edited by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Pulitzer Prize{\textendash}nominated historian John Stauffer,\ The Portable Frederick Douglass\ includes the full range of Douglass{\textquoteright}s works: the complete\ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, as well as extracts from\ My Bondage and MyFreedom\ and\ Life and Times of Frederick Douglass;\ The Heroic Slave, one of the first works of African American fiction; the brilliant speeches that launched his political career and that constitute the greatest oratory of the Civil War era; and his journalism, which ranges from cultural and political critique (including his early support for women{\textquoteright}s equality) to law, history, philosophy, literature, art, and international affairs, including a never-before-published essay on Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L{\textquoteright}Ouverture.}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and John Stauffer} } @book {1378478, title = {Albert Murray: Collected Essays \& Memoirs}, year = {2016}, publisher = {Library of America}, organization = {Library of America}, abstract = {In his 1970 classic\ The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray\ (1916{\textendash}2013) took aim at protest writers and social scientists who\ accentuated the {\textquotedblleft}pathology{\textquotedblright} of race in American life. Against\ narratives of marginalization and victimhood, Murray argued that\ black art and culture, particularly jazz and blues, stand at the very\ headwaters of the American mainstream, and that much of what\ is best in American art embodies the {\textquotedblleft}blues-hero tradition{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}\ a heritage of grace, wit, and inspired improvisation in the face of\ adversity. Murray went on to refine these ideas in\ The Blue Devils\ of Nada\ and\ From the Briarpatch File, and all three landmark collections\ of essays are gathered here for the first time, together\ with Murray{\textquoteright}s memoir\ South to a Very Old Place, his brilliant\ lecture series\ The Hero and the Blues, his masterpiece of jazz criticism\ Stomping the Blues, and eight previously uncollected pieces.}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Paul Devlin} } @film {1378436, title = {Finding Your Roots, Season 3}, year = {2016}, publisher = {Writer, narrator, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes): January 5 {\textendash} March 8, 2016.}, abstract = {Season three of Finding Your Roots explores how diverse racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds challenge many of our long-held national myths.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1378431, title = {Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise}, year = {2016}, publisher = {Writer, narrator, and executive producer. Four-hour series, PBS, November 15 {\textendash} November 22, 2016.}, abstract = {In his new four-hour series, BLACK AMERICA SINCE MLK: AND STILL I RISE, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. embarks on a deeply personal journey through the last fifty years of African American history. Joined by leading scholars, celebrities, and a dynamic cast of people who shaped these years, Gates travels from the victories of the civil rights movement up to today, asking profound questions about the state of black America{\textemdash}and our nation as a whole.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134063, title = {Finding Your Roots, Season 2: The Official Companion to the PBS Series}, year = {2016}, publisher = {University of North Carolina Press}, organization = {University of North Carolina Press}, abstract = {In the second season, Gates{\textquoteright}s investigation takes on the personal and genealogical histories of more than twenty luminaries, including Ken Burns, Stephen King, Derek Jeter, Governor Deval Patrick, Valerie Jarrett, and Sally Field.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1130148, title = {And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK}, year = {2015}, publisher = {Ecco/HarperCollins}, organization = {Ecco/HarperCollins}, abstract = {

The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.{\textquoteright}s PBS series, And Still I Rise{\textemdash}a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.

Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White House explores the last half-century of the African American experience.

}, url = {https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062427007/and-still-i-rise/}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin M. Burke} } @book {1378533, title = {The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Penguin Classics}, organization = {Penguin Classics}, abstract = {

Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks{\textquoteright}s courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her seat. The experience shaped Wells{\textquoteright}s career, and{\textemdash}when hate crimes touched her life personally{\textemdash}she mounted what was to become her life{\textquoteright}s work: an anti-lynching crusade that captured international attention.

This volume covers the entire scope of Wells{\textquoteright}s remarkable career, collecting her early writings, articles exposing the horrors of lynching, essays from her travels abroad, and her later journalism.\ The Light of Truth\ is both an invaluable resource for study and a testament to Wells{\textquoteright}s long career as a civil rights activist.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

}, author = {Ida B. Wells}, editor = {Mia Bay and Henry Louis Gates Jr.} } @book {1378532, title = {The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The 20th Century Part 1: The Impact of Africa}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Belknap Press of Harvard University Press}, organization = {Belknap Press of Harvard University Press}, abstract = {In the 1960s, art patrons Dominique and Jean de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient world to modern times. Highlights from the image archive, accompanied by essays written by major scholars, appeared in three large-format volumes, consisting of one or more books, that quickly became collector{\textquoteright}s items. A half-century later, Harvard University Press and the Du Bois Institute are proud to have republished five of the original books and to present five completely new ones, extending the series into the twentieth century.

The Impact of Africa, the first of two books on the twentieth century, looks at changes in the Western perspective on African art and the representation of Africans, and the paradox of their interpretation as simultaneously "primitive" and "modern." The essays include topics such as the new medium of photography, African influences on Picasso and on Josephine Baker{\textquoteright}s impression of 1920s Paris, and the influential contribution of artists from the Caribbean and Latin American diasporas.}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and David Bindman} } @book {1378531, title = {The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The 20th Century Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Belknap Press of Harvard University Press}, organization = {Belknap Press of Harvard University Press}, abstract = {In the 1960s, art patrons Dominique and Jean de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient world to modern times. Highlights from the image archive, accompanied by essays written by major scholars, appeared in three large-format volumes, consisting of one or more books, that quickly became collector{\textquoteright}s items. A half-century later, Harvard University Press and the Du Bois Institute are proud to have republished five of the original books and five completely new ones, extending the series into the twentieth century.

The Rise of Black Artists, the second of two books on the twentieth century and the final volume in\ The Image of the Black in Western Art, marks an essential shift in the series and focuses on representation of blacks by black artists in the West. This volume takes on important topics ranging from urban migration within the United States to globalization, to N{\'e}gritude and cultural hybridity, to the modern black artist{\textquoteright}s relationship with European aesthetic traditions and experimentation with new technologies and media. Concentrating on the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean, essays in this volume shed light on topics such as photography, jazz, the importance of political activism to the shaping of black identities, as well as the post-black art world.}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and David Bindman} } @film {1378437, title = {Finding Your Roots, Season 2}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Writer, narrator, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes): September 23 {\textendash} November 25, 2014.}, abstract = {Explore the heritages and ancestries of leading entertainers, athletes, chefs, and media personalities in season two of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134072, title = {Os Negros Na Am{\'e}rica Latina}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Companhia das Letras}, organization = {Companhia das Letras}, abstract = {

Latin American Edition of {\textquoteright}Black in Latin America{\textquoteright}

Segundo Henry Louis Gates Jr., a hist{\'o}ria da di{\'a}spora africana {\'e} em grande medida a hist{\'o}ria dos ciclos econ{\^o}micos - minera{\c c}{\~a}o, a{\c c}{\'u}car, tabaco, pecu{\'a}ria - das col{\^o}nias europeias no Novo Mundo. A partir da descoberta da Am{\'e}rica, milh{\~o}es de homens e mulheres foram transportados em horr{\'\i}veis condi{\c c}{\~o}es at{\'e} portos como os de Havana, Veracruz e Salvador. Aqueles que sobreviviam {\`a} viagem em geral trabalhavam at{\'e} a morte nas fazendas, minas e cidades coloniais, assim como seus descendentes.

}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134070, title = {The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, edition = {25th Anniversary Edition}, abstract = {

New to this Edition:

}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1130147, title = {Finding Your Roots, Season 1: The Official Companion to the PBS Series}, year = {2014}, publisher = {University of North Carolina Press}, organization = {University of North Carolina Press}, abstract = {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 people.\ }, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1378536, title = {African American National Biography}, year = {2013}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, abstract = {The\ African American National Biography\ presents history through a mosaic of the lives of thousands of individuals, illuminating the abiding influence of persons of African descent on the life of this nation from the arrival of Esteban in Spanish Florida in 1529 through to notable black citizens of the present day.

The original eight-volume set has now been expanded to twelve handsome volumes in its second edition, bringing the total number of lives profiled to nearly 5,000. The\ AANB\ continues to grow along with the field of African American biographical research, providing for continuous updates to the online edition, each entry written and signed by distinguished scholars. This is a remarkable achievement, a tenfold increase over the number of biographies contained in 2004{\textquoteright}s award-winning and substantial African American Lives, and featuring such notable new entries as Cory Booker, C. Vivian Stringer, and Michelle Obama.

In addition to Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr., the\ AANB\ includes a wide range of African Americans from all time periods and all walks of life. Lives profiled include those already recognized as giants of black history, figures whose stories have never been told and that readers will be discovering for the first time, and living people who are shaping the era in which we now live. The names within are both famous and nearly-forgotten. In the words of\ AANB\ editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "These stories, long buried in the dusty archives of history, will never be lost again. And that is what scholarship in the field of African American Studies should be all about."}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham} } @book {1378460, title = {En Busca De Nuestras Ra{\'\i}ces: De C{\'o}mo 19 Extraordinarios Afroamericanos Rescataron Su Pasado}, year = {2013}, publisher = {Latin American Edition of "In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past." Ciencias Sociales.}, organization = {Latin American Edition of "In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past." Ciencias Sociales.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1378456, title = {12 Years a Slave}, year = {2013}, publisher = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr., historical consultant. Feature film directed by Steve McQueen, Fox Searchlight Pictures.}, abstract = {Award-winning historical slave-narrative drama directed by Steve McQueen and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor. The film follows the experience of Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), an African-American living with a wife and two children in Saratoga, New York, who is kidnapped and sold into slavery by men claiming to offer him work as a circus musician. Transported by ship to New Orleans, it isn{\textquoteright}t long before he is given a new name and sold to William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch), a relatively empathetic slave owner. But confrontations with the cruel and violent overseer John Tibeats (Paul Dano) lead to Solomon being passed on by Ford to the extremely abusive and alcoholic planter Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender), who rules his slaves with a whip in one hand and a Bible in the other. Believing the only hope of regaining his freedom is to remain passive for the time being, Solomon ceases fighting against the illegitimacy of his situation until salvation is offered to him by a kindly labourer named Bass (Brad Pitt). The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong{\textquoteright}o) and Best Adapted Screenplay, and won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Drama and BAFTAs for Best Leading Actor (Ejiofor) and Best Film.} } @film {1378438, title = {Many Rivers to Cross: The African Americans}, year = {2013}, publisher = {Writer, narrator, and executive producer. Six-hour series, PBS, October 22 - November 26, 2013.}, abstract = {This six-hour series chronicles the full sweep of African-American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent through more than four centuries of remarkable historic events up to the present. Survey the full sweep of African-American history with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.\ }, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134075, title = {The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross}, year = {2013}, publisher = {Smiley Books}, organization = {Smiley Books}, abstract = {The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is the companion book to the six-part, six hour documentary of the same name, airing on national, primetime public television in the fall of 2013. The series is the first to air since 1968 that chronicles the full sweep of 500 years of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent and the arrival of the first black conquistador, Juan Garrido, in Florida in 1513, through five centuries of remarkable historic events right up to today{\textemdash}when Barack Obama is serving his second term as President, yet our country remains deeply divided by race and class.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Donald Yacovone} } @book {1378551, title = {The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, abstract = {

When newly-liberated African American slaves attempted to enter the marketplace and exercise their rights as citizens of the United States in 1865, few, if any, Americans expected that, a century and a half later, the class divide between black and white Americans would be as wide as it is today. The United States has faced several potential key turning points in the status of African Americans over the course of its history, yet at each of these points the prevailing understanding of African Americans and their place in the economic and political fabric of the country was at best contested and resolved on the side of second-class citizenship.

The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present\ seeks to answer the question of what the United States would look like today if, at the end of the Civil War, freed slaves had been granted full political, social and economic rights. It does so by tracing the historical evolution of African American experiences, from the dawn of Reconstruction onward, through the perspectives of sociology, political science, law, economics, education and psychology. As a whole, the book is the first systematic study of the gap between promise and performance of African Americans since 1865. Over the course of thirty-four chapters, written by some of the most eminent scholars of African American studies and across every major social discipline, this handbook presents a full and powerful portrait of the particular hurdles faced by African Americans and the distinctive contributions African Americans have made to the development of U.S. institutions and culture. As such, it tracks where African Americans have been in order to better illuminate the path ahead.

}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Claude Steele and Lawrence D. Bobo and Michael Dawson and Gerald Jaynes and Lisa Crooms-Robinson and Linda Darling-Hammond} } @book {1378550, title = {The Classic Slave Narratives}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Reissue Edition, Signet Classics}, organization = {Reissue Edition, Signet Classics}, abstract = {

Before the end of the Civil War, more than one hundred former slaves had published moving stories of their captivity and escape, joined by a similar number after the war. No group of slaves anywhere, in any other era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of America{\textquoteright}s top experts in African American studies, presents four of these classic narratives that illustrate the real nature of black experience in slavery.

Fascinating and powerful, this collection includes four of the best-known examples: the lives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs (alias Linda Brent), Mary Price, and Olaudah Equiano (alias Gustavus Vassa). These amazing stories are not only first-person histories of the highest caliber, they are also a unique literary form that has given birth to the spirit, vitality, and vision of America{\textquoteright}s modern black writers.

Updated with the ninth edition of\ The Life of Olaudah Equiano, the last edition he revised and published in his lifetime.

}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1378548, title = {Twelve Years a Slave}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Introduction by Ira Berlin. Penguin Classics}, organization = {Introduction by Ira Berlin. Penguin Classics}, author = {Solomon Northup}, editor = {Henry Louis Gates Jr.} } @book {1378546, title = {Dictionary of African Biography}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, abstract = {

In the spirit of\ The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, American National Biography,\ and\ African American National Biography--all three published by Oxford University Press--Dictionary of African Biography\ is a major biographical dictionary covering the lives and legacies of notable African men and women from all eras and walks of life. This groundbreaking resource tells the full story of the African continent through the lives of its people.

The rich history of the African people has been unduly neglected in the scholarly literature, and reliable reference material is in short supply. This trend has begun to change, however, and in recent years many new historical discoveries have been made. Much of this research is designed as a corrective to the long tradition of inadequate treatment by scholars. Although scholarship on Africa is flourishing, very little of this research has yet filtered down into accessible reference works; well designed reference material is essential to promote further scholarly inquiry, learning, and education, and to satisfy increasing interest among nonspecialist audiences.

Although there have been some isolated instances of successful biography of Africans, there is no single resource that provides comprehensive coverage. Older reference works focus unevenly on the colonial period, European adventurers, and Egyptian dynasties. There is very little attention given to the full range of African lives, and rarely is the continent treated as a whole. As a result our picture of Africa{\textquoteright}s history and its people is incomplete. A comprehensive biographical dictionary will greatly increase our understanding of the African continent and have a transformative effect on education and research.

As the most wide-reaching reference project on Africa to date,\ DAB\ will be a means of codifying the explosion of new research. Entries will be written by contributing scholars from African studies departments the world over. Each entry has been reviewed by the editorial board to ensure only reliable, high-quality material is published.

DAB\ contains nearly 2 million words in nearly 2,100 entries, each with bibliography, ranging from 750 to 2,000 words. It will have a comprehensive index. It comprises six volumes and is published in a hardcover edition for specialists and libraries.

}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Emmanuel K. Akyeampong} } @film {1378439, title = {Finding Your Roots, Season 1}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Writer, narrator, and executive producer. Television series, PBS (ten, one-hour episodes): March 25 - May 20, 2012.}, abstract = {The basic drive to discover who we are and where we come from is at the core of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Continuing on the quest begun in his previous projects, African American Lives, African American Lives 2, and Faces of America, Gates finds new ways to get into the DNA of American culture.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134081, title = {The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Basic Civitas Books}, organization = {Basic Civitas Books}, abstract = {Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America{\textquoteright}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.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.}, editor = {Abby Wolf} } @film {1378440, title = {Black in Latin America}, year = {2011}, publisher = {Writer, narrator, and executive producer. Four-hour series, PBS, April 19 - May 10, 2011.}, abstract = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uncovers Latin America{\textquoteright}s African roots in\ this four-part series.\ Black in Latin America is a quest to discover how Africa and Europe combined to create the vibrant cultures of Latin America, with a rich legacy of thoughtful, articulate subjects whose stories are astonishingly moving and irresistibly compelling.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134088, title = {Black in Latin America}, year = {2011}, publisher = {New York University Press}, organization = {New York University Press}, abstract = {12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000 of them arrived in the United States. The rest{\textemdash}over ten and a half million{\textemdash}were taken to the Caribbean and Latin America. This astonishing fact changes our entire picture of the history of slavery in the Western hemisphere, and of its lasting cultural impact. These millions of Africans created new and vibrant cultures, magnificently compelling syntheses of various African, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish influences.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134084, title = {Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008}, year = {2011}, publisher = {Random House}, organization = {Random House}, abstract = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1378463, title = {Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism}, year = {2010}, publisher = {Chinese Edition. Peking University Press.}, organization = {Chinese Edition. Peking University Press.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1378462, title = {Colored People: A Memoir}, year = {2010}, publisher = {Chinese Edition. Peking University Press.}, organization = {Chinese Edition. Peking University Press.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1378441, title = {Faces of America}, year = {2010}, publisher = {Writer, narrator, and executive producer. Four-hour series, PBS, February 10 - March 3, 2010.}, abstract = {What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the new PBS series Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Harvard scholar turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134090, title = {Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora}, year = {2010}, publisher = {Basic Civitas Books}, organization = {Basic Civitas Books}, abstract = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.{\textquoteright}s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination of the discipline{\textquoteright}s roots and role in contemporary thought. In this conversational tour through the halls of theory, Gates leaps from Richard Wright to Spike Lee, from Pat Buchanan to Frantz Fanon, and ultimately to the source of anticolonialist thought: the unlikely figure of Edmund Burke.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134089, title = {Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary Americans Reclaimed Their Pasts}, year = {2010}, publisher = {New York University Press}, organization = {New York University Press}, abstract = {As a nation of immigrants, the American experience is vibrantly defined by the diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious heritage of its people. Perhaps because so many of their ancestors migrated to this country relatively recently, Americans are especially concerned with their family trees, carving out personal histories by combing through documents such as wills and estate records, federal and state censuses, and private family papers, and mining the stories and tales handed down to them by their forebears.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1378442, title = {Looking for Lincoln}, year = {2009}, publisher = {Writer, narrator, and executive producer. Two-hour program, PBS, February 11, 2009. }, abstract = {LOOKING FOR LINCOLN dissects the myths that have grown up around Abraham Lincoln. In doing so, the program addresses outstanding questions - about race, equality, religion and depression - by carefully interpreting the evidence provided by people who actually knew him. Henry Louis Gates Jr. hosts.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134091, title = {In Search of Our Roots}, year = {2009}, publisher = {Crown Publishing}, organization = {Crown Publishing}, abstract = {Unlike most white Americans who, if they are so inclined, can search their ancestral records, identifying who among their forebears was the first to set foot on this country{\textquoteright}s shores, most African Americans, in tracing their family{\textquoteright}s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was a brutally efficient nullifier of identity, willfully denying black men and women even their names. Yet, from that legacy of slavery, there have sprung generations who{\textquoteright}ve struggled, thrived, and lived extraordinary lives.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1378443, title = {African American Lives 2}, year = {2008}, publisher = {Writer, narrator, and executive producer. Four-hour series, PBS, February 6 and 13, 2008.}, abstract = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets with influential African American figures, like Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock and Maya Angelou, to piece together their genealogy and disclose captivating facts about their ancestors. Genealogical detective work, DNA analysis and the study of historical documents fills in the gaps of history and reveals emotional tales of African American heritage and survival.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1378449, title = {Oprah{\textquoteright}s Roots: An African American Lives Special}, year = {2007}, publisher = {Writer, narrator, and executive producer. One-hour program, PBS, January 24, 2007.}, abstract = {Finding Oprahs Roots, a companion to the book by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., features Oprah, showing by her example, that it is possible to build an African American family tree. Excerpts from the Oprahs Roots documentary are combined with comments from many of the experts featured in the film including genealogist Tony Burroughs and historian John Thornton. Powerful storytelling and a clear how-to guide make this DVD a unique educational resource.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134092, title = {Finding Oprah{\textquoteright}s Roots, Finding Your Own}, year = {2007}, publisher = {Crown Publishing}, organization = {Crown Publishing}, abstract = {Finding Oprah{\textquoteright}s Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by history{\textquoteright}s unsung but also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past. A roadmap through the intricacies of public documents and online databases, the book also highlights genetic testing resources that can make it possible to know one{\textquoteright}s distant tribal roots in Africa.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1378450, title = {African American Lives}, year = {2006}, publisher = {Writer, narrator and executive producer. Four-hour series, PBS, February 1 and 8, 2006. }, abstract = {An unprecedented four-part series, AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES uncovers a new level personal discovery. Using genealogy, oral history, family stories, and DNA analysis to trace lineages through American history and back to Africa, the series provides life-changing journeys for a diverse group of highly accomplished African Americans including Whoopi Goldberg, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Quincy Jones, Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Chris Tucker and Oprah Winfrey.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1378451, title = {America Beyond the Color Line}, year = {2004}, publisher = {Writer and narrator. Four-hour series, BBC2/PBS, February 2 and 4, 2004.}, abstract = {The evolution of African American society has split into two distinct communities, according to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. the privileged and the disenfranchised. Viewed through the lens of four intrinsic elements of the African American experience Black Hollywood, The Black Elite, The Ghetto, and The New South gates examines the legacy of the Civil Rights movement since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134093, title = {America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans}, year = {2004}, publisher = {Warner Books}, organization = {Warner Books}, abstract = {More than thirty-five years after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., Americans wonder just how much of his dream has come true. Now renowned scholar and New York Times bestselling author Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., examines the surprising social and economic journey African Americans have made since the civil rights era.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134094, title = {The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America{\textquoteright}s First Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers}, year = {2003}, publisher = {Basic Civitas Books}, organization = {Basic Civitas Books}, abstract = {In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge her gifts as a writer{\textemdash}a repudiation that eventually inspired generations of black writers to build an extraordinary body of literature in their efforts to prove him wrong.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1378464, title = {Little Known Black History Facts}, year = {2000}, publisher = {McDonald{\textquoteright}s Corporation}, organization = {McDonald{\textquoteright}s Corporation}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134095, title = {The African-American Century}, year = {2000}, publisher = {The Free Press}, organization = {The Free Press}, abstract = {Without Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, we would not have jazz. Without Toni Morrison or Ralph Ellison, we would miss some of our greatest novels. Without Dr. King or Thurgood Marshall, we would be deprived of political breakthroughs that affirm and strengthen our democracy. Here, two of the leading African-American scholars of our day, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West, show us why the twentieth century was the African-American century, as they offer their personal picks of the African-American figures who did the most to shape our world.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West} } @film {1378453, title = {Leaving Cleaver: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Remembers Eldridge Cleaver}, year = {1999}, publisher = {Writer, narrator, and correspondent. WGBH.}, abstract = {In March 1997, social activist, former Black Panther, and author, Eldridge Cleaver sat down with Henry Louis Gates Jr. for a discussion of his life as a civil rights activist. It would be the last major interview Cleaver gave before his death in May 1998. This film draws on the 1997 interview, archival footage, and commentary from Cleaver{\textquoteright}s former wife Kathleen, as well as audio tapes of a 1975 interview that Gates did with Cleaver in Paris.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1378452, title = {Wonders of the African World}, year = {1999}, publisher = {Writer and narrator. Six part-series, PBS, October 25 {\textendash} 27, 1999 (shown as {\textquotedblleft}Into Africa{\textquotedblright} on BBC-2 in the United Kingdom and South Africa, Summer, 1999).}, abstract = {Africa is a continent of magnificent treasures and cultures--from the breathtaking stone architecture of 1,000-year-old ruins in South Africa to an advanced 16th century international university in Timbuktu. However, for centuries, many of these African wonders have been hidden from the world, lost to the ravages of time, nature and repressive governments. Uncover the richness of these African Wonders with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as he explores the many cultures, traditions and history of the African continent.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134096, title = {Wonders of the African World}, year = {1999}, publisher = {Knopf}, organization = {Knopf}, abstract = {Wonders of the African World is an exuberant, visually stunning journey across Africa and through the history of its glorious but forgotten civilizations.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1378454, title = {The Two Nations of Black America}, year = {1998}, publisher = {Writer, narrator and producer. On "Frontline," WGBH-TV, February 11, 1998.}, abstract = {In this FRONTLINE report, correspondent Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a Harvard scholar, explores the gaping chasm between the upper and lower classes of black America and probes why it has happened: "How have we reached this point where we have both the largest black middle class and the largest black underclass in our history?"}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1378468, title = {Farbige Zeiten: Eine Jugend in Amerika}, year = {1997}, publisher = {German Edition of "Colored People: A Memoir." Diogenes Verlag AG.}, organization = {German Edition of "Colored People: A Memoir." Diogenes Verlag AG.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1378465, title = {Gente de Color}, year = {1997}, publisher = {Latin American Edition of "Colored People: A Memoir." Arte y Literatura.}, organization = {Latin American Edition of "Colored People: A Memoir." Arte y Literatura.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134097, title = {Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man}, year = {1997}, publisher = {Random House}, organization = {Random House}, abstract = {"This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as {\textquoteleft}narratives of ascent.{\textquoteright}" As some remarkable men talk about their lives, many perspectives on race and gender emerge. For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates argues, is as imaginary as the creature that the poet Wallace Stevens conjured in his poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @film {1378455, title = {From Great Zimbabwe to Kilimatinde}, year = {1996}, publisher = {Writer and narrator. In {\textquotedblleft}Great Rail Journeys,{\textquotedblright} BBC/PBS, 1996.}, abstract = {Henry Louis Gates Jr. and his family travel by train from Zimbabwe to the village of Kilimatinde in Tanzania.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134098, title = {The Future of The Race}, year = {1996}, publisher = {Knopf}, organization = {Knopf}, abstract = {

Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West{\textendash}two of Du Bois{\textquoteright}s most prominent intellectual descendants{\textendash}reassess that relationship and its implications for the future of black Americans. If the 1990s are the best of times for the heirs of the Talented Tenth, they are unquestionably worse for the growing black underclass. As they examine the origins of this widening gulf and propose solutions for it, Gates and West combine memoir and biography, social analysis and cultural survey into a book that is incisive and compassionate, cautionary and deeply stirring.

}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West} } @book {1134099, title = {Colored People: A Memoir}, year = {1994}, publisher = {Knopf}, organization = {Knopf}, abstract = {In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato {\textquotedblleft}processes,{\textquotedblright} and of slyly stubborn resistance to the indignities of segregation.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134100, title = {Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars}, year = {1992}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, abstract = {Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D{\textquoteright}Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William F. Buckley to rail against Stanley Fish and Catherine Stimpson on "Firing Line." It is arguably the most hotly debated topic in America today--and justly so. For whether one speaks of tensions between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights, or violent mass protests against Moscow in ethnic republics such as Armenia, or outright war between Serbs and Bosnians in the former Yugoslavia, it is clear that the clash of cultures is a worldwide problem, deeply felt, passionately expressed, always on the verge of violent explosion. Problems of this magnitude inevitably frame the discussion of "multiculturalism" and "cultural diversity" in the American classroom as well.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134101, title = {The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism}, year = {1988}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, abstract = {This groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, Gates uncovers a unique system of interpretation and a powerful vernacular tradition that black slaves brought with them to the New World. He uses this critical framework to reassess several major works of African-American literature, including Zora Neale Hurston{\textquoteright}s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ralph Ellison{\textquoteright}s Invisible Man, and Ishmael Reed{\textquoteright}s Mumbo Jumbo.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} } @book {1134102, title = {Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self}, year = {1987}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, abstract = {In this insightful volume, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a leading scholar in African-American studies, attacks the notion of African-American literature as a kind of social realism. Insisting, instead, that critics focus on the most repressed element of African-American criticism--the language of the text--Gates advocates the use of a close, methodical analysis of language, made possible by modern literary theory. Incorporating the theoretical insights of critics such as Bakhtin, Foucault, Lacan, Derrida, and Bloom, he explores the work of a wide range of African-American writers from Phillis Wheatley to Ishmael Reed and Alice Walker.}, author = {Henry Louis Gates, Jr.} }