Henry Louis Gates

Henry Louis Gates

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is editor in chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center and of the daily online magazine The Root. He has received more than forty honorary degrees from institutions the world over.

Author Contributions

Who's Black and Why?

Who's Black and Why?

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson; Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Fateful Triangle

Fateful Triangle

Stuart Hall
Harlem

Harlem

Vera Ingrid Grant
Black Kingdom of the Nile

Black Kingdom of the Nile

Charles Bonnet
Picturing Frederick Douglass

Picturing Frederick Douglass

Celeste-Marie Bernier, John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, Epilogue by Henry Louis Gates, Afterword by Kenneth B. Morris
Image of the Black in African and Asian Art The Portable Frederick Douglass

The Portable Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass
Picturing Frederick Douglass

Picturing Frederick Douglass

John Stauffer;Henry Louis Gates Jr.-Foreward;Kenneth B. Morris-Afterword
Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880-2012 Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V 12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie-In) Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup