The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

Contributors

By Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Edited by Abby Wolf

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On Sale
May 1, 2012
Page Count
656 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780465028313

Price

$50.00

Price

$63.00 CAD

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  1. Hardcover $50.00 $63.00 CAD
  2. ebook $20.99 $26.99 CAD

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.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

About the Author

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities, chair of the Afro-American Studies Department, and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University.

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