Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
"This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'" As some remarkable men talk about their lives, many perspectives on race and gender emerge. For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates argues, is as imaginary as the creature that the poet Wallace Stevens conjured in his poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
James Baldwin, Colin Powell, Harry Belafonte, Bill T. Jones, Louis Farrakhan, Anatole Broyard, Albert Murray -- all these men came from modest circumstances and all achieved preeminence. They are people, Gates writes, "who have shaped the world as much as they were shaped by it, who gave as good as they got." Three are writers…
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February 3, 1998Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored numerous books, including most recently Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow and The Black Church, and has created more than twenty documentary films, including his groundbreaking genealogy series Finding Your Roots. His six-part PBS documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, earned an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and an NAACP Image Award. This series and his PBS documentary series Reconstruction: America after the Civil War were both honored with the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.…
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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James Weldon Johnson; Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Mis-education of the Negro
Carter G. Woodson; Introduction by Jarvis R. Givens; General Editor: Henry LouisGates, Jr.
The Portable Anna Julia Cooper
Edited by Shirley Moody-Turner; General Editor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Alain Locke; Edited with an Introduction by Jeffrey C. Stewart; General Editor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Black Church
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Fateful Triangle
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