Why Is Henry Louis Gates Jr. Influential?
According to Wikipedia , Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, professor, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a Trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He rediscovered the earliest African-American novels, long forgotten, and has published extensively on appreciating African-American literature as part of the Western canon.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Published Works
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1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 0 125 250 375 500 625 750 875 1000 1125 1250 1375 1500 1625 1750 1875 2000 Published Papers The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism "Race," writing, and difference (433) Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (242) Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (232) The Trope of a New Negro and the Reconstruction of the Image of the Black The "Blackness of Blackness": A Critique of the Sign and the Signifying Monkey Africana : The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience The Slave's narrative Henty Louis Gates, Jr., and African-American Literary Discourse@@@Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self@@@The Signifying Monkey: Towards a Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism The Future of the Race Editor's Introduction: Writing "Race" and the Difference It Makes The Classic slave narratives (110) Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man Black Literature and Literary Theory Reading black, reading feminist : a critical anthology (92) The Oxford companion to African American literature The souls of Black folk : authoritative text, contexts, criticism (83) The Image of the Black in Western art Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art (75) Colored People: A Memoir (74) Black imagination and the middle passage Critical Fanonism Ancient DNA reveals a multistep spread of the first herders into sub-Saharan Africa The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938 The Master’s Pieces: On Canon Formation and the African-American Tradition Facing History: The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940 Black in Latin America The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers Lincoln on Race and Slavery To make a poet Black Harlem on Our Minds Editors' Introduction: Multiplying Identities The anthology of rap The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country (36) African American Lives (36) Wonders of the African world (34) Black Popular Culture : A Project by Michele Wallace (34) The Dictionary of Global Culture Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present Bearing witness : selections from African-American autobiography in the twentieth century (32) The revolt of African slaves in Iraq in the 3rd/9th century Pioneers of the Black Atlantic : five slave narratives from the Enlightenment, 1772-1815 (32) Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (30) Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past And Present Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. (28) Josephine Baker and Paul Colin: African American Dance Seen through Parisian Eyes "What's Love Got to Do with It?": Critical Theory, Integrity, and the Black Idiom Good-bye, Columbus? Notes on the Culture of Criticism The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin Educating America: How Ralph W. Tyler Taught America to Teach (21) New Directions in Afro-American Literary Criticism@@@The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism Authority, (White) Power and the (Black) Critic; It's All Greek to Me Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life (20) Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American (20) Encyclopedia of Africa The Oxford handbook of African American citizenship, 1865-present America Behind The Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans (19) Dictionary of African Biography Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (17) 42. First Inaugural Address CW, 4:262–264, 268–269 Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora The Works of Alain Locke (15) Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies (15) In Search Of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays On The Bondwoman's Narrative (15) African American national biography (14) Josephine Baker and La Revue nègre : Paul Colin's lithographs of Le tumulte noir in Paris, 1927 (14) The light of truth : writings of an anti-lynching crusader (14) Frederick Douglass’s Camera Obscura: Representing the Antislave “Clothed and in Their Own Form” Gloria Naylor : critical perspectives past and present Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness African American Studies in the 21st Century. Talkin' That Talk The Civitas anthology of African American slave narratives (11) STATEMENT FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE W. E. B. DU BOIS INSTITUTE A Debate on Activism in Black Studies A CONVERSATION WITH CLAUDE M. STEELE A REPORTER AT LARGE: BLACK LONDON Black Is the Color of the Cosmos: Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture, 1942-1981 Harlem on my mind : cultural capital of Black America, 1900-1968 (9) Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement (9) Under the Sky of My Africa Five for Five: The Films of Spike Lee (8) 62. Annual Message to Congress CW, 7:49–51 Black Is the Color of the Cosmos Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past And Present From Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison: The Flowering of African-American Literature. Three classic African-American novels (6) Picturing Frederick Douglass (6) A CONVERSATION WITH WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON ON THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque (5) The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader 2. Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois CW, 1:108, 109–112 The Works of William Wells Brown: Using His "Strong, Manly Voice" (5) The Transforming of the American Mind. Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor Joining the Black Overclass at Yale University Criticism in the jungle A CONVERSATION WITH CONDOLEEZZA RICE Black biography, 1790-1950 : a cumulative index Barack Obama: A Pocket Biography of Our 44th President (4) The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature (3rd ed.) (4) Lincoln on race & slavery (4) The Autobiographical Turn@@@French Lessons.@@@Colored People: A Memoir.@@@A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises.@@@After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist.@@@The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism.@@@Risking Who One Is.@@@The Edge of Night.@@@C Civil Rights: An A-To-Z Reference of the Movement That Changed America (4) Cane : authoritative text, contexts, criticism (4) Mister Jefferson and the Trials of Phillis Wheatley (4) A Preliminary Response to Ali Mazrui's Preliminary Critique of “Wonders of the African World” Does Academic Correctness Repress Separatist or Afrocentrist Scholarship (3) The New Bible of Black Literature Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada The Perception of Black Literature as a Necessary Road to Membership in the Human Community The Welcome Table: James Baldwin in Exile AN OVERVIEW OF SOURCES ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF JUAN LATINO, THE ETHIOPIANHUMANIST (3) Academic Freedom and the Future of the University: Truth or Consequences: Putting Limits on Limits The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt (2) The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art The white issue (2) "An Unfathomable Place": a conversation with Quentin Tarantino about Django Unchained (2012) (2) Malcolm, the aardvark and me (2) From the Pharaohs to the fall of the Roman Empire (2) The Artful Voyeur Black Literature and Literary Theory W.E.B. Du Bois and the Encyclopedia Africana, 1909-63 A Function at the Junction@@@Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory@@@The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature Third Edition (1) 13. Speech at Peoria, Illinois CW, 2:255–256, 262–269, 270–272, 274–276 12. Speech at Bloomington, Illinois CW, 2:230–233 The sword and the savior (1) 37. Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio CW, 3:445–446 Great Books for Entering Black Freshmen. (1) 27. First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois CW, 3:14–18, 27–30 Eldridge Cleaver on Ice "...and bid him sing": J. Saunders Redding and the Criticism of American Negro Literature Race and Racism in Contemporary Cuban Art: a conversation with Queloides curators Alejandro de la Fuente and Elio Rodríguez Valdés, moderated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1) African and African American Literature "Grievances at the treatment she received": Harriet E. Wilson's Spiritualist Career in Boston, 1868-1900 The annotated African American folktales (1) A CONVERSATION WITH ISABEL WILKERSON 63. Reply to New York Workingmen’s Democratic Republican Association CW, 7:259–260 Opening the Floodgates@@@Black Literature and Literary Theory The history and theory of Afro-American literary criticism, 1773-1831: the arts, aesthetic theory, and the nature of the African On the right track. Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources A Pragmatic Precedent (1) A CONVERSATION WITH NELL IRVIN PAINTER After the Harlem Renaissance Abraham Lincoln on Race and Slavery Everybody Say Freedom: Everything You Need to Know About African-American History (1) The Make of the Modern@@@Jacob Lawrence: The "Migration" Series. 47. Appeal to Border State Representatives to Favor Compensated Emancipation CW, 5:317–319 Blood Brothers: Albert and Allen Hughes in the Belly of the Hollywood Beast. (1) 12 Years a Slave: a conversation with Steve McQueen (1) On the rhetoric of racism in literature (1) Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology.@@@Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989.@@@Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writings. Slaves and liberators (1) 4. Temperance Address CW, 1:278–279 nial Women, with its reading of how Restoration drama staged issues of both gender and colonialism, makes clear the benefits of bringing a “New World” more centrally into our analysis of early modern English literature (0) 66. Interview with Alexander W. Randall and Joseph T. Mills CW, 7:506–507 Excessive exposure : the complete chocolate portraits (0) The African Americans 21. A House Divided, Speech at Springfield, Illinois CW, 2:461–462, 464–465, 466–468 Appendix: Lincoln, Race, and Humor 51. Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation CW, 5:433–436 40. Speech at Hartford, Connecticut CW, 4:2–13 28. Second Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Freeport, Illinois CW, 3:39–42 39. Address at the Cooper Institute, New York City CW, 3:522–550 Dogon Art and Architecture (0) 8. Remarks and Resolution Introduced in United States House of Representatives Concerning Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia CW, 2:20–22 24. Speech at Chicago, Illinois CW, 2:491–494, 497–502 68. Second Inaugural Address CW, 8:332–333 From Slave to Statesman: The Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Virginia (0) The Master's Pieces: On Canon Formation and the African-American Tradition 16. A L to George Robertson CW, 2:317–318 23. Fragment on the Struggle Against Slavery CW, 2:482 Negroes Old, Negroes New: On Afro-American Modernism Here comes the bandwagon (0) Introduction: Criticism in De Jungle 64. A L to Albert G. Hodges CW, 7:281–282 45. A L to James A. McDougall CW, 5:160–161 20. Speech at Springfield, Illinois CW, 2:403–409 TRIBUTES TO JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN: Doctor Honoris Causa Acceptance Speech, University of Caen, 2007. In Memoriam Michel Fabre African Art@@@Africa: The Art of a Continent@@@Africa: The Art of a Continent, 100 Works of Power and Beauty The rise of black artists (0) 70. Last Public Address CW, 8:401–404 The Classic Slave Narratives: Excerpt (1987) "Black to the future: Libraries, technology, and the development of African-American studies" in "Rare book and manuscript libraries in the twenty-first century, Session two: Rare book and manuscript libraries as centers for research and teaching" (0) An Updated and Inadequate Version of The New Negro 15. A L to Owen Lovejoy CW, 2:316–317 7. Speech at Worcester, Massachusetts CW, 2:2–4 Microsoft Encarta Africana 2000 48. Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes CW, 5:370–375 11. The Image of the Black in Twentieth-Century Anglo-Afro-Caribbean Art Luminous City, Luminous Gallery 29. Speech at Carlinville, Illinois CW, 3:77–81 22. A L to John L. Scripps CW, 2:471 The Case for Permitting Hate Speech on Campus Wonders of the African World: The Swahili Coast (0) The Bible Stories 49. A L to Horace Greeley CW, 5:388–389 The Multicultural Lexicon of Appiah and Gates 9. Eulogy on Henry Clay & Outline for Speech to the Colonization Society CW, 2:127–129, 130–132 & 298–299 Berea College Commencement Address 44. Message to Congress CW, 5:144–146 The Perennial Value of the Slave Narrative Afro-American Literature@@@Black Is the Color of the Cosmos: Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture, 1942-1981@@@Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century: The Achievement of Intimacy 59. A L to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant CW, 6:374–375 Gentleman Jigger (excerpts) 32. Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas CW, 3:145–146, 179, 181 61. Fragment CW, 6:410–411 25. Speech at Springfield, Illinois CW, 2:514–516, 518–521 30. Speech at Clinton, Illinois CW, 3:81–84 The humanities in the schools (0) No . 2 ' FINDING ONE ' S WAY ' THROUGH A RADICAL CRITICAL PEDAGOGY (0) Ife, Art of the Early Kingdom 17. A L to Joshua F. Speed CW, 2:320–323 The Years of the Black Panthers at Yale University Zora Neale Hurston : a heart with room for every joy (0) Civil rights in America : the road to equality and the drem today (0) 35. A L to Salmon P. Chase CW, 3:384 46. A L to Horace Greeley & Message to Congress CW, 5:169– 5:192 19. A L to Newton Deming and George P. Strong CW, 2:[online edition only] From the demonic threat to the incarnation of sainthood (0) 18. Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan CW, 2:361–366 The Encyclopedia Africana 14. A L to Ichabod Codding CW, 2:288 Slavery's Shadow@@@Our Nig. 56. A L to John M. Schofield CW, 6:291 Foreword 41. A L to John A. Gilmer CW, 4:151–152 50. Reply to Emancipation Memorial Presented by Chicago Christians of All Denominations CW, 5:419–421, 423–425 A Who's Who of Notable African Americans 60. A L to James C. Conkling CW, 6:407–410 36. Speech at Columbus, Ohio CW, 3:401–410, 417–425 33. Fragment on Pro-slavery Theology CW, 3:204–205 43. A L to Orville H. Browning CW, 4:531–532 Authority, (White) Power and the (Black) Critic; It’s All Greek to Me 14 Sour Grapes: Ezekiel and the Literature of Social Justice Murder She Wrote (0) Tricky Situation (0) What’s in a Name?: Some Meanings of Blackness Black models and white myths (0) 26. Speech at Lewistown, Illinois CW, 2:546–547 African American Citizenship 58. A L to Nathaniel P. Banks CW, 6:364–365 Entrevista a Cornel West. (0) Bushiri bin Salim al-Harthi: Dictionary of African Biography (0) 65. A L to Edwin M. Stanton CW, 7:345–346 57. Order of Retaliation CW, 6:357 53. Emancipation Proclamation CW, 6:28–30 Africans in the Christian ordinance of the world 11. Fragments on Slavery CW, 2:222–223 Reading “Race,” Writing, and Difference The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture@@@Discourse and the Other.@@@Duties, Pleasures, and Conflicts. 34. Seventh and Last Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Alton, Illinois & AL to James N. Brown CW, 3:298–305, 327–328 Europe and the world beyond (0) Foreword 55. Resolution on Slavery CW, 6:176 3. A L to Mary Speed CW, 1:260 Benin, Art of the Early Kingdom (0) From Slave to Statesman (0) 5. A L to Williamson Durley CW, 1:347–348 31. Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois CW, 3:92–95 1. Protest in Illinois Legislature on Slavery CW, 1:74–75 67. Resolution Submitting the Thirteenth Amendment to the States CW, 8:253 54. A L to Andrew Johnson CW, 7:149–150 38. Fragment on Free Labor CW, 3:462–463 The impact of Africa The eighteenth century 1. The Master's Pieces: On Canon Formation and the Afro-American Tradition Harlem Renaissance Personalities 6. A L to Josephus Hewett CW, 1:450 10. Speech to the Springfield Scott Club CW, 2:156–157 69. Speech to One Hundred Fortieth Indiana Regiment CW, 8:360–361 52. Annual Message to Congress CW, 5:518, 520–521, 527, 529–532, 534–537 More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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