Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Babacar M'Baye (Kent State University)

Ed. by Nick Selby, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.5: African American Writing and Culture of the United States.
Vol. editors: Philathia Bolton (University of Akron), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), A Yemisi Jimoh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University)

Dates

Born 16 Sep 1950
Activity 1981-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Genres and Modes

Cinema/ Film/ TV
- Documentary (film)

Cultural Identities

African American

Activities

Primary

Cultural Theorist/ Critic
Literary Critic/ Historian
Literary Theorist
Teacher/ Professor

Resources

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is one of the most prolific American scholars of his generation. He has helped many blacks in the United States appreciate the richness of their African and African American roots and their contributions to American history and society. Through exploration of both the successes and trials of African Americans from slavery to the present, Gates has revived the confidence of many blacks in the United States who continue to suffer from the legacies of a brutal past. Gates has explored these legacies in both American history and literature in inclusive ways that reveal the complex meaning of blackness in American multiracialism and multiculturalism.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher …

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Citation: M'Baye, Babacar. "Henry Louis Gates Jr.". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 August 2009 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1701, accessed 31 October 2024.]

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