🍂 Autumn reading time! Let our AI Librarian find your perfect cozy read 🫖
Explore the literary world of this author
Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolif...
Writing the Race
A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves over the course of the country's histor...
"This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'" As some remarkable men talk about their...
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...
Words, Signs, and the "racial" Self
Argues that Black literature cannot be characterized strictly as social realism, and offers a textual analysis of works by eighteenth- to twentieth-ce...
Now the major motion picture that won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong’o, an...
Notes on the Culture Wars
Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around Ameri...
Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of ess...
A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
A groundbaking work of enduring influence. The Signifying Monkey illuminates the relationship between the African and African American vernacular trad...
This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. ...
How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered Their Pasts
Based on PBS television series Faces of America hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers
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...
Many Rivers to Cross
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is the companion book to the six-part, six-hour documentary of the same name. The series is the first to a...
The Official Companion to the PBS Series
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 th...
From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's hi...
Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history�...
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 mo...
The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as �...
...
A novel written in the 1850s by a runaway slave follows a young slave from a North Carolina plantation as she flees to the North and, after being purs...
Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's World
Annotation The concept "leave no child behind" has become popularly associated with the Bush administration's education plan, but Comer contends that ...
Finding Yours
Finding Oprah’s Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by history’s unsung but also equip them w...
Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
A director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard presents a sumptuously illustrated chronicle of more than 500 years of African-American histor...
Critical Theory in the African Diaspora
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination of the di...
Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism
A collection of essays presenting the plight of the Black man in America, first published in 1903....
How l9 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
Unlike most white Americans who, if they are so inclined, can search their ancestral records, identifying who among their forebears was the first to s...
How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
The distinguished scholar examines the origins and history of African-American ancestry as he profiles nineteen noted African Americans and illuminate...
Dialogues with African Americans
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 schola...
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine’s Vulture Intro...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War's conclusion, Reco...
or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
With a New Preface, Introduction, and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New Afterword by Barbara White A fascinating fusion of two literary models of th...
The readable companion, in the oral-history tradition of Studs Terkel, to the PBS documentary series, peeking behind the veil "that still, far too oft...
Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self
"The originality, brilliance, and scope of the work is remarkable.... Gates will instruct, delight, and stimulate a broad range of readers, both those...
The Dramatic and Other Uncollected Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Synopsis: This collection features Dunbar's (1872-1906) previously unpublished dramatic works, short stories, essays, and poems-approximately 75 works...
Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
Contributors argue that hate speech restrictions on college campuses are dangerous and counterproductive. Essays discuss race theory and the First Ame...
A collection from one of our most influential African American writers An icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt, an incisiv...
Narrative of the Life / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the only authoritative edition of all three autobiographies by the escaped slave who became a great American leader. H...
An American Slave
Born a slave in Maryland circa 1817, Frederick Douglass went on to become the most influential and distinguished African American of the nineteenth ce...