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 (1704) "Race," writing, and difference (433) Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self (246) 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 (201) The "Blackness of Blackness": A Critique of the Sign and the Signifying Monkey (182) Africana : The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience (170) The Slave's narrative (161) 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 (156) The Future of the Race (126) Editor's Introduction: Writing "Race" and the Difference It Makes (111) The Classic slave narratives (110) Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (105) Black Literature and Literary Theory (99) Reading black, reading feminist : a critical anthology (92) The Oxford companion to African American literature (91) The souls of Black folk : authoritative text, contexts, criticism (83) The Image of the Black in Western art (76) Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art (75) Colored People: A Memoir (74) Black imagination and the middle passage (71) Critical Fanonism (71) Ancient DNA reveals a multistep spread of the first herders into sub-Saharan Africa (59) The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938 (58) The Master’s Pieces: On Canon Formation and the African-American Tradition (51) Facing History: The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940 (51) Black in Latin America (46) The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers (43) Lincoln on Race and Slavery (43) To make a poet Black (42) Harlem on Our Minds (41) Editors' Introduction: Multiplying Identities (37) The anthology of rap (36) 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 (33) Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (33) Bearing witness : selections from African-American autobiography in the twentieth century (32) The revolt of African slaves in Iraq in the 3rd/9th century (32) 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 (29) Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (28) 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 (27) "What's Love Got to Do with It?": Critical Theory, Integrity, and the Black Idiom (26) Good-bye, Columbus? Notes on the Culture of Criticism (24) The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin (21) 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 (21) Authority, (White) Power and the (Black) Critic; It's All Greek to Me (20) 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 (19) The Oxford handbook of African American citizenship, 1865-present (19) America Behind The Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans (19) Dictionary of African Biography (19) Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (18) The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (17) 42. First Inaugural Address CW, 4:262–264, 268–269 (17) Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora (16) 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” (13) Gloria Naylor : critical perspectives past and present (13) Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness (13) African American Studies in the 21st Century. (12) Talkin' That Talk (12) The Civitas anthology of African American slave narratives (11) STATEMENT FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE W. E. B. DU BOIS INSTITUTE (11) A Debate on Activism in Black Studies (10) A CONVERSATION WITH CLAUDE M. STEELE (10) A REPORTER AT LARGE: BLACK LONDON (10) Black Is the Color of the Cosmos: Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture, 1942-1981 (9) 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 (8) Five for Five: The Films of Spike Lee (8) 62. Annual Message to Congress CW, 7:49–51 (8) Black Is the Color of the Cosmos (7) Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (7) From Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison: The Flowering of African-American Literature. (6) Three classic African-American novels (6) Picturing Frederick Douglass (6) A CONVERSATION WITH WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON ON THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA (5) Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque (5) The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader (5) 2. Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois CW, 1:108, 109–112 (5) The Works of William Wells Brown: Using His "Strong, Manly Voice" (5) The Transforming of the American Mind. (5) Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor (5) Joining the Black Overclass at Yale University (5) Criticism in the jungle (4) A CONVERSATION WITH CONDOLEEZZA RICE (4) Black biography, 1790-1950 : a cumulative index (4) 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 (4) 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” (4) Does Academic Correctness Repress Separatist or Afrocentrist Scholarship (3) The New Bible of Black Literature (3) Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada (3) The Perception of Black Literature as a Necessary Road to Membership in the Human Community (3) The Welcome Table: James Baldwin in Exile (3) 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 (2) The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt (2) The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art (2) 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 (2) Black Literature and Literary Theory (2) W.E.B. Du Bois and the Encyclopedia Africana, 1909-63 (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 (2) 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 (1) 12. Speech at Bloomington, Illinois CW, 2:230–233 (1) The sword and the savior (1) 37. Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio CW, 3:445–446 (1) Great Books for Entering Black Freshmen. (1) 27. First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois CW, 3:14–18, 27–30 (1) Eldridge Cleaver on Ice (1) "...and bid him sing": J. Saunders Redding and the Criticism of American Negro Literature (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. (1) African and African American Literature (1) "Grievances at the treatment she received": Harriet E. Wilson's Spiritualist Career in Boston, 1868-1900 (1) The annotated African American folktales (1) A CONVERSATION WITH ISABEL WILKERSON (1) 63. Reply to New York Workingmen’s Democratic Republican Association CW, 7:259–260 (1) Opening the Floodgates@@@Black Literature and Literary Theory (1) The history and theory of Afro-American literary criticism, 1773-1831: the arts, aesthetic theory, and the nature of the African (1) On the right track. (1) Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (1) A Pragmatic Precedent (1) A CONVERSATION WITH NELL IRVIN PAINTER (1) After the Harlem Renaissance (1) Abraham Lincoln on Race and Slavery (1) Everybody Say Freedom: Everything You Need to Know About African-American History (1) The Make of the Modern@@@Jacob Lawrence: The "Migration" Series. (1) 47. Appeal to Border State Representatives to Favor Compensated Emancipation CW, 5:317–319 (1) 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. (1) Slaves and liberators (1) 4. Temperance Address CW, 1:278–279 (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 (0) 66. Interview with Alexander W. Randall and Joseph T. Mills CW, 7:506–507 (0) Excessive exposure : the complete chocolate portraits (0) The African Americans (0) 21. A House Divided, Speech at Springfield, Illinois CW, 2:461–462, 464–465, 466–468 (0) Appendix: Lincoln, Race, and Humor (0) 51. Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation CW, 5:433–436 (0) 40. Speech at Hartford, Connecticut CW, 4:2–13 (0) 28. Second Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Freeport, Illinois CW, 3:39–42 (0) 39. Address at the Cooper Institute, New York City CW, 3:522–550 (0) 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 (0) 24. Speech at Chicago, Illinois CW, 2:491–494, 497–502 (0) 68. Second Inaugural Address CW, 8:332–333 (0) 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 (0) 16. A L to George Robertson CW, 2:317–318 (0) 23. Fragment on the Struggle Against Slavery CW, 2:482 (0) Negroes Old, Negroes New: On Afro-American Modernism (0) Here comes the bandwagon (0) Introduction: Criticism in De Jungle (0) 64. A L to Albert G. Hodges CW, 7:281–282 (0) 45. A L to James A. McDougall CW, 5:160–161 (0) 20. Speech at Springfield, Illinois CW, 2:403–409 (0) TRIBUTES TO JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN: (0) Doctor Honoris Causa Acceptance Speech, University of Caen, 2007. In Memoriam Michel Fabre (0) African Art@@@Africa: The Art of a Continent@@@Africa: The Art of a Continent, 100 Works of Power and Beauty (0) The rise of black artists (0) 70. Last Public Address CW, 8:401–404 (0) The Classic Slave Narratives: Excerpt (1987) (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" (0) An Updated and Inadequate Version of The New Negro (0) 15. A L to Owen Lovejoy CW, 2:316–317 (0) 7. Speech at Worcester, Massachusetts CW, 2:2–4 (0) Microsoft Encarta Africana 2000 (0) 48. Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes CW, 5:370–375 (0) 11. The Image of the Black in Twentieth-Century Anglo-Afro-Caribbean Art (0) Luminous City, Luminous Gallery (0) 29. Speech at Carlinville, Illinois CW, 3:77–81 (0) 22. A L to John L. Scripps CW, 2:471 (0) The Case for Permitting Hate Speech on Campus (0) Wonders of the African World: The Swahili Coast (0) The Bible Stories (0) 49. A L to Horace Greeley CW, 5:388–389 (0) The Multicultural Lexicon of Appiah and Gates (0) 9. Eulogy on Henry Clay & Outline for Speech to the Colonization Society CW, 2:127–129, 130–132 & 298–299 (0) Berea College Commencement Address (0) 44. Message to Congress CW, 5:144–146 (0) The Perennial Value of the Slave Narrative (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 (0) 59. A L to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant CW, 6:374–375 (0) Gentleman Jigger (excerpts) (0) 32. Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas CW, 3:145–146, 179, 181 (0) 61. Fragment CW, 6:410–411 (0) 25. Speech at Springfield, Illinois CW, 2:514–516, 518–521 (0) 30. Speech at Clinton, Illinois CW, 3:81–84 (0) The humanities in the schools (0) No . 2 ' FINDING ONE ' S WAY ' THROUGH A RADICAL CRITICAL PEDAGOGY (0) Ife, Art of the Early Kingdom (0) 17. A L to Joshua F. Speed CW, 2:320–323 (0) The Years of the Black Panthers at Yale University (0) 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 (0) 46. A L to Horace Greeley & Message to Congress CW, 5:169– 5:192 (0) 19. A L to Newton Deming and George P. Strong CW, 2:[online edition only] (0) From the demonic threat to the incarnation of sainthood (0) 18. Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan CW, 2:361–366 (0) The Encyclopedia Africana (0) 14. A L to Ichabod Codding CW, 2:288 (0) Slavery's Shadow@@@Our Nig. (0) 56. A L to John M. Schofield CW, 6:291 (0) Foreword (0) 41. A L to John A. Gilmer CW, 4:151–152 (0) 50. Reply to Emancipation Memorial Presented by Chicago Christians of All Denominations CW, 5:419–421, 423–425 (0) A Who's Who of Notable African Americans (0) 60. A L to James C. Conkling CW, 6:407–410 (0) 36. Speech at Columbus, Ohio CW, 3:401–410, 417–425 (0) 33. Fragment on Pro-slavery Theology CW, 3:204–205 (0) 43. A L to Orville H. Browning CW, 4:531–532 (0) Authority, (White) Power and the (Black) Critic; It’s All Greek to Me (0) 14 Sour Grapes: Ezekiel and the Literature of Social Justice (0) Murder She Wrote (0) Tricky Situation (0) What’s in a Name?: Some Meanings of Blackness (0) Black models and white myths (0) 26. Speech at Lewistown, Illinois CW, 2:546–547 (0) African American Citizenship (0) 58. A L to Nathaniel P. Banks CW, 6:364–365 (0) 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 (0) 57. Order of Retaliation CW, 6:357 (0) 53. Emancipation Proclamation CW, 6:28–30 (0) Africans in the Christian ordinance of the world (0) 11. Fragments on Slavery CW, 2:222–223 (0) Reading “Race,” Writing, and Difference (0) The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture@@@Discourse and the Other.@@@Duties, Pleasures, and Conflicts. (0) 34. Seventh and Last Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Alton, Illinois & AL to James N. Brown CW, 3:298–305, 327–328 (0) Europe and the world beyond (0) Foreword (0) 55. Resolution on Slavery CW, 6:176 (0) 3. A L to Mary Speed CW, 1:260 (0) Benin, Art of the Early Kingdom (0) From Slave to Statesman (0) 5. A L to Williamson Durley CW, 1:347–348 (0) 31. Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois CW, 3:92–95 (0) 1. Protest in Illinois Legislature on Slavery CW, 1:74–75 (0) 67. Resolution Submitting the Thirteenth Amendment to the States CW, 8:253 (0) 54. A L to Andrew Johnson CW, 7:149–150 (0) 38. Fragment on Free Labor CW, 3:462–463 (0) The impact of Africa (0) The eighteenth century (0) 1. The Master's Pieces: On Canon Formation and the Afro-American Tradition (0) Harlem Renaissance Personalities (0) 6. A L to Josephus Hewett CW, 1:450 (0) 10. Speech to the Springfield Scott Club CW, 2:156–157 (0) 69. Speech to One Hundred Fortieth Indiana Regiment CW, 8:360–361 (0) 52. Annual Message to Congress CW, 5:518, 520–521, 527, 529–532, 534–537 (0) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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