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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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.

Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations

Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations

General editor Retha Powers, Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Edited by Abby Wolf

The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

America Behind The Color Line

America Behind The Color Line

by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

In Search of Hannah Crafts

In Search of Hannah Crafts

by Henry Louis Gates Jr., by Hollis Robbins

Pioneers Of The Black Atlantic

Pioneers Of The Black Atlantic

by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Edited by William L. Andrews