Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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According to Wikipedia, Henry Louis Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the 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 known African-American novels and has published extensively on the recognition of African-American literature as part of the Western canon.

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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (1988) (1779)
"Race," writing, and difference (1983) (429)
Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self (1987) (259)
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (1996) (245)
Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992) (234)
The Trope of a New Negro and the Reconstruction of the Image of the Black (1988) (212)
The "Blackness of Blackness": A Critique of the Sign and the Signifying Monkey (1983) (189)
Africana : The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience (1999) (176)
The Slave's narrative (1986) (163)
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 (1989) (156)
The Future of the Race (1996) (131)
Editor's Introduction: Writing "Race" and the Difference It Makes (1985) (117)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (1997) (107)
The Classic slave narratives (1987) (106)
The Oxford companion to African American literature (1997) (98)
Reading black, reading feminist : a critical anthology (1990) (97)
The souls of Black folk : authoritative text, contexts, criticism (1999) (92)
The Image of the Black in Western art (2010) (85)
Critical Fanonism (1991) (85)
Ancient DNA reveals a multistep spread of the first herders into sub-Saharan Africa (2019) (82)
Black imagination and the middle passage (1999) (77)
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art (1994) (76)
Colored People: A Memoir (1994) (74)
The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938 (2007) (59)
The Master's Pieces: On Canon Formation and the African-American Tradition (1990) (54)
Facing History: The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940 (1991) (52)
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers (2003) (47)
Lincoln on Race and Slavery (2009) (43)
Black in Latin America (2011) (43)
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (2019) (43)
To make a poet Black (1968) (42)
The Anthology of Rap (2017) (42)
Harlem on Our Minds (1997) (41)
The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country (2000) (39)
The Dictionary of Global Culture (1998) (36)
Editors' Introduction: Multiplying Identities (1992) (36)
The revolt of African slaves in Iraq in the 3rd/9th century (1999) (35)
Wonders of the African world (1999) (35)
African American Lives (2004) (35)
Black Popular Culture : A Project by Michele Wallace (1992) (34)
Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (2000) (34)
Pioneers of the Black Atlantic : five slave narratives from the Enlightenment, 1772-1815 (1998) (32)
Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. (1994) (32)
Bearing witness : selections from African-American autobiography in the twentieth century (1991) (32)
Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 (2011) (31)
Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (1993) (28)
Josephine Baker and Paul Colin: African American Dance Seen through Parisian Eyes (1998) (27)
"What's Love Got to Do with It?": Critical Theory, Integrity, and the Black Idiom (1987) (27)
Good-bye, Columbus? Notes on the Culture of Criticism (1991) (26)
Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American (2015) (25)
Authority, (White) Power and the (Black) Critic; It's All Greek to Me (1987) (22)
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013) (21)
Encyclopedia of Africa (2010) (21)
New Directions in Afro-American Literary Criticism@@@The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (1990) (21)
Introduction: “Tell Me, Sir, … What Is ‘Black’ Literature?” (1990) (21)
The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin (1964) (21)
America Behind The Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans (2004) (20)
The Oxford handbook of African American citizenship, 1865-present (2012) (20)
Educating America: How Ralph W. Tyler Taught America to Teach (2004) (20)
Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life (20)
Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (1991) (18)
Dictionary of African Biography (1971) (18)
The light of truth : writings of an anti-lynching crusader (2014) (18)
The Works of Alain Locke (2012) (17)
Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora (2010) (16)
In Search Of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays On The Bondwoman's Narrative (2003) (15)
Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies (2008) (15)
African American national biography (2008) (14)
Josephine Baker and La Revue nègre : Paul Colin's lithographs of Le tumulte noir in Paris, 1927 (1998) (14)
42. First Inaugural Address CW, 4:262–264, 268–269 (2009) (13)
African American Studies in the 21st Century. (1992) (13)
Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness (2007) (13)
Frederick Douglass’s Camera Obscura: Representing the Antislave “Clothed and in Their Own Form” (2015) (13)
Gloria Naylor : critical perspectives past and present (1993) (13)
Talkin' That Talk (1986) (12)
The Civitas anthology of African American slave narratives (1999) (11)
A Debate on Activism in Black Studies (2007) (11)
STATEMENT FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE W. E. B. DU BOIS INSTITUTE (2004) (11)
Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement (1996) (10)
A REPORTER AT LARGE: BLACK LONDON (2000) (10)
A CONVERSATION WITH CLAUDE M. STEELE (2009) (9)
Harlem on my mind : cultural capital of Black America, 1900-1968 (1979) (9)
Black Is the Color of the Cosmos: Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture, 1942-1981 (1982) (9)
Five for Five: The Films of Spike Lee (1991) (8)
Picturing Frederick Douglass (2015) (8)
Under the Sky of My Africa (2006) (8)
62. Annual Message to Congress CW, 7:49–51 (2009) (8)
From Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison: The Flowering of African-American Literature. (1996) (7)
Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (2000) (7)
Black Is the Color of the Cosmos (1983) (7)
Three classic African-American novels (1990) (6)
Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque (2010) (6)
A CONVERSATION WITH WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON ON THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA (2009) (5)
The Transforming of the American Mind. (1990) (5)
2. Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois CW, 1:108, 109–112 (2009) (5)
The Works of William Wells Brown: Using His "Strong, Manly Voice" (2006) (5)
The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader (2006) (5)
Cane : authoritative text, contexts, criticism (2011) (5)
Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor (2018) (5)
Criticism in the jungle (2016) (5)
A Preliminary Response to Ali Mazrui's Preliminary Critique of “Wonders of the African World” (2000) (5)
Joining the Black Overclass at Yale University (1996) (4)
Black biography, 1790-1950 : a cumulative index (1991) (4)
Lincoln on race & slavery (2009) (4)
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Encyclopedia Africana, 1909-63 (2000) (4)
Mister Jefferson and the Trials of Phillis Wheatley (2002) (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 (1995) (4)
Barack Obama: A Pocket Biography of Our 44th President (2009) (4)
Does Academic Correctness Repress Separatist or Afrocentrist Scholarship (1994) (4)
Civil Rights: An A-To-Z Reference of the Movement That Changed America (2005) (4)
The Perception of Black Literature as a Necessary Road to Membership in the Human Community (1998) (3)
The annotated African American folktales (2018) (3)
AN OVERVIEW OF SOURCES ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF JUAN LATINO, THE ETHIOPIANHUMANIST (1998) (3)
The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt (2008) (3)
From the Pharaohs to the fall of the Roman Empire (2010) (3)
The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art (2017) (3)
Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada (1978) (3)
The New Bible of Black Literature (1998) (3)
The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature (3rd ed.) (2014) (3)
The white issue (1998) (2)
Malcolm, the aardvark and me (1993) (2)
"An Unfathomable Place": a conversation with Quentin Tarantino about Django Unchained (2012) (2013) (2)
A Function at the Junction@@@Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory@@@The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (1990) (2)
Academic Freedom and the Future of the University: Truth or Consequences: Putting Limits on Limits (1994) (2)
The Artful Voyeur (1995) (2)
The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature Third Edition (2014) (2)
The history and theory of Afro-American literary criticism, 1773-1831: the arts, aesthetic theory, and the nature of the African (1978) (1)
Eldridge Cleaver on Ice (1997) (1)
63. Reply to New York Workingmen’s Democratic Republican Association CW, 7:259–260 (2009) (1)
African American Citizenship (2012) (1)
"Grievances at the treatment she received": Harriet E. Wilson's Spiritualist Career in Boston, 1868-1900 (2012) (1)
Everybody Say Freedom: Everything You Need to Know About African-American History (1996) (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. (1993) (1)
"...and bid him sing": J. Saunders Redding and the Criticism of American Negro Literature (2019) (1)
The Make of the Modern@@@Jacob Lawrence: The "Migration" Series. (1994) (1)
The Welcome Table: James Baldwin in Exile (1998) (1)
Blood Brothers: Albert and Allen Hughes in the Belly of the Hollywood Beast. (1994) (1)
Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (1986) (1)
After the Harlem Renaissance (2002) (1)
The sword and the savior (1993) (1)
Slaves and liberators (1989) (1)
37. Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio CW, 3:445–446 (2009) (1)
On the rhetoric of racism in literature (1988) (1)
13. Speech at Peoria, Illinois CW, 2:255–256, 262–269, 270–272, 274–276 (2009) (1)
47. Appeal to Border State Representatives to Favor Compensated Emancipation CW, 5:317–319 (2009) (1)
Opening the Floodgates@@@Black Literature and Literary Theory (1987) (1)
On the right track. (2006) (1)
12 Years a Slave: a conversation with Steve McQueen (2014) (1)
Abraham Lincoln on Race and Slavery (2009) (1)
Great Books for Entering Black Freshmen. (1994) (1)
A CONVERSATION WITH ISABEL WILKERSON (2010) (1)
12. Speech at Bloomington, Illinois CW, 2:230–233 (2009) (1)
A CONVERSATION WITH NELL IRVIN PAINTER (2010) (1)
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. (2012) (1)
A Pragmatic Precedent (2009) (1)
Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) (2014) (0)
Appendix: Lincoln, Race, and Humor (2009) (0)
59. A L to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant CW, 6:374–375 (2009) (0)
Excessive exposure : the complete chocolate portraits (2010) (0)
50. Reply to Emancipation Memorial Presented by Chicago Christians of All Denominations CW, 5:419–421, 423–425 (2009) (0)
Slavery's Shadow@@@Our Nig. (1984) (0)
What’s in a Name?: Some Meanings of Blackness (2012) (0)
22. A L to John L. Scripps CW, 2:471 (2009) (0)
65. A L to Edwin M. Stanton CW, 7:345–346 (2009) (0)
61. Fragment CW, 6:410–411 (2009) (0)
The humanities in the schools (1993) (0)
The African Americans (2013) (0)
68. Second Inaugural Address CW, 8:332–333 (2009) (0)
20. Speech at Springfield, Illinois CW, 2:403–409 (2009) (0)
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 (1986) (0)
1. Protest in Illinois Legislature on Slavery CW, 1:74–75 (2009) (0)
21. A House Divided, Speech at Springfield, Illinois CW, 2:461–462, 464–465, 466–468 (2009) (0)
Europe and the world beyond (2011) (0)
43. A L to Orville H. Browning CW, 4:531–532 (2009) (0)
Civil rights in America : the road to equality and the drem today (2014) (0)
The Classic Slave Narratives: Excerpt (1987) (2020) (0)
From Slave to Statesman (2016) (0)
The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture@@@Discourse and the Other.@@@Duties, Pleasures, and Conflicts. (1991) (0)
Here comes the bandwagon (0)
38. Fragment on Free Labor CW, 3:462–463 (2009) (0)
14 Sour Grapes: Ezekiel and the Literature of Social Justice (2020) (0)
From Slave to Statesman: The Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Virginia (2016) (0)
No . 2 ' FINDING ONE ' S WAY ' THROUGH A RADICAL CRITICAL PEDAGOGY (2008) (0)
The Bible Stories (2002) (0)
29. Speech at Carlinville, Illinois CW, 3:77–81 (2009) (0)
48. Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes CW, 5:370–375 (2009) (0)
The eighteenth century (2011) (0)
5. A L to Williamson Durley CW, 1:347–348 (2009) (0)
Negroes Old, Negroes New: On Afro-American Modernism (1980) (0)
Black models and white myths (2012) (0)
53. Emancipation Proclamation CW, 6:28–30 (2009) (0)
64. A L to Albert G. Hodges CW, 7:281–282 (2009) (0)
54. A L to Andrew Johnson CW, 7:149–150 (2009) (0)
Dogon Art and Architecture (1999) (0)
6. A L to Josephus Hewett CW, 1:450 (2009) (0)
45. A L to James A. McDougall CW, 5:160–161 (2009) (0)
Reading “Race,” Writing, and Difference (2008) (0)
15. A L to Owen Lovejoy CW, 2:316–317 (2009) (0)
67. Resolution Submitting the Thirteenth Amendment to the States CW, 8:253 (2009) (0)
69. Speech to One Hundred Fortieth Indiana Regiment CW, 8:360–361 (2009) (0)
The impact of Africa (2014) (0)
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 (2007) (0)
9. Eulogy on Henry Clay & Outline for Speech to the Colonization Society CW, 2:127–129, 130–132 & 298–299 (2009) (0)
30. Speech at Clinton, Illinois CW, 3:81–84 (2009) (0)
African Art@@@Africa: The Art of a Continent@@@Africa: The Art of a Continent, 100 Works of Power and Beauty (1997) (0)
Doctor Honoris Causa Acceptance Speech, University of Caen, 2007. In Memoriam Michel Fabre (2009) (0)
28. Second Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Freeport, Illinois CW, 3:39–42 (2009) (0)
7. Speech at Worcester, Massachusetts CW, 2:2–4 (2009) (0)
58. A L to Nathaniel P. Banks CW, 6:364–365 (2009) (0)
3. A L to Mary Speed CW, 1:260 (2009) (0)
23. Fragment on the Struggle Against Slavery CW, 2:482 (2009) (0)
1. The Master's Pieces: On Canon Formation and the Afro-American Tradition (2019) (0)
Authority, (White) Power and the (Black) Critic; It’s All Greek to Me (0)
27. First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois CW, 3:14–18, 27–30 (2009) (0)
The rise of black artists (2014) (0)
70. Last Public Address CW, 8:401–404 (2009) (0)
A Who's Who of Notable African Americans (2004) (0)
14. A L to Ichabod Codding CW, 2:288 (2009) (0)
Zora Neale Hurston : a heart with room for every joy (2005) (0)
Bushiri bin Salim al-Harthi: Dictionary of African Biography (2011) (0)
52. Annual Message to Congress CW, 5:518, 520–521, 527, 529–532, 534–537 (2009) (0)
Harlem Renaissance Personalities (2002) (0)
39. Address at the Cooper Institute, New York City CW, 3:522–550 (2009) (0)
18. Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan CW, 2:361–366 (2009) (0)
24. Speech at Chicago, Illinois CW, 2:491–494, 497–502 (2009) (0)
The Perennial Value of the Slave Narrative (2001) (0)
40. Speech at Hartford, Connecticut CW, 4:2–13 (2009) (0)
32. Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas CW, 3:145–146, 179, 181 (2009) (0)
60. A L to James C. Conkling CW, 6:407–410 (2009) (0)
57. Order of Retaliation CW, 6:357 (2009) (0)
Africans in the Christian ordinance of the world (2010) (0)
33. Fragment on Pro-slavery Theology CW, 3:204–205 (2009) (0)
Foreword (2017) (0)
Luminous City, Luminous Gallery (2015) (0)
"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" (1993) (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 (2009) (0)
66. Interview with Alexander W. Randall and Joseph T. Mills CW, 7:506–507 (2009) (0)
11. Fragments on Slavery CW, 2:222–223 (2009) (0)
Murder She Wrote (2006) (0)
46. A L to Horace Greeley & Message to Congress CW, 5:169– 5:192 (2009) (0)
An Updated and Inadequate Version of The New Negro (1996) (0)
The Multicultural Lexicon of Appiah and Gates (1997) (0)
17. A L to Joshua F. Speed CW, 2:320–323 (2009) (0)
25. Speech at Springfield, Illinois CW, 2:514–516, 518–521 (2009) (0)
26. Speech at Lewistown, Illinois CW, 2:546–547 (2009) (0)
Microsoft Encarta Africana 2000 (2000) (0)
TRIBUTES TO JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN: (2010) (0)
11. The Image of the Black in Twentieth-Century Anglo-Afro-Caribbean Art (2018) (0)
Wonders of the African World: The Swahili Coast (1999) (0)
10. Speech to the Springfield Scott Club CW, 2:156–157 (2009) (0)
35. A L to Salmon P. Chase CW, 3:384 (2009) (0)
The Case for Permitting Hate Speech on Campus (1995) (0)
49. A L to Horace Greeley CW, 5:388–389 (2009) (0)
Tricky Situation (2001) (0)
The Encyclopedia Africana (2003) (0)
Ife, Art of the Early Kingdom (1999) (0)
56. A L to John M. Schofield CW, 6:291 (2009) (0)
Benin, Art of the Early Kingdom (1999) (0)
55. Resolution on Slavery CW, 6:176 (2009) (0)
36. Speech at Columbus, Ohio CW, 3:401–410, 417–425 (2009) (0)
The Years of the Black Panthers at Yale University (1997) (0)
Foreword (2019) (0)
Introduction: Criticism in De Jungle (2018) (0)
31. Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois CW, 3:92–95 (2009) (0)
Berea College Commencement Address (2008) (0)
44. Message to Congress CW, 5:144–146 (2009) (0)
4. Temperance Address CW, 1:278–279 (2009) (0)
41. A L to John A. Gilmer CW, 4:151–152 (2009) (0)
Entrevista a Cornel West. (2008) (0)
51. Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation CW, 5:433–436 (2009) (0)
Gentleman Jigger (excerpts) (2002) (0)
From the demonic threat to the incarnation of sainthood (2010) (0)
19. A L to Newton Deming and George P. Strong CW, 2:[online edition only] (2009) (0)
34. Seventh and Last Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Alton, Illinois & AL to James N. Brown CW, 3:298–305, 327–328 (2009) (0)
16. A L to George Robertson CW, 2:317–318 (2009) (0)

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