Henry Louis Gates

Biographic Data

ID122957
NAMEHenry Louis Gates
GIVEN NAMESHenry Louis
FAMILY NAMEGates
SIGNATUREGATES H L
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University
ORCID0009-0000-2347-5912
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS99
TOTAL CITATIONS186
AUTHOR COUNT89
EDITOR COUNT10
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX7

  • “Some Fresh Suggestions about the New Negro Crime”: Harper’s Weekly, January 23, 1904

    Martha H Patterson, Henry Louis GatesCHAPTERThe New Negro2025

  • The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887–1937

    Martha H Patterson, Henry Louis GatesBOOKThe New Negro2025

  • Le rôle de l'Église noire aux États-Unis

    Henry Louis Gates, Benoit GautierARTICLEÉtudes2023

    Henry Louis Gates, professeur de littérature et intellectuel public américain, publie en français Black Church (Labor et Fides, janvier 2023), un livre qui reprend et approfondit le contenu d'un film documentaire consacré à cette institution centrale de l'expérience afro-américaine. Il nous explique comment le christianisme noir américain a été structuré par l'esclavage et la ségrégation, jusqu'à devenir une véritable contre-société permettant au…

  • Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race

    Open AccessHenry Louis Gates, Andrew S CurranBOOKWho's Black and Why?2022

  • Who’s Black and Why: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race

    Open AccessJr Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates et al.BOOKWho's Black and Why?2022

    In 1739 Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans’ black skin? Published here for the first time and translated into English, these early documents of scientific racism lay bare the Enlightenment origins of the phantom of racial hierarchy

  • The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr Henry Louis GatesBOOKThe Black Church2021

    For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity--an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from …

  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

    Henry Louis GatesCHAPTERBlack Men on Race, Gender, and…2020

  • Black in Latin America

    Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates Jr et al.BOOKBlack in Latin America2020

    1 Brazil: May Exu Give Me the Power of Speech2 Mexico: e Grandma in the Closet3 Peru: e Blood of the Incas, the Blood of the Mandingas4 h e Dominican Republic: Black behind the Ears5 Haiti: From My Ashes I Rise God Is My Cause and My Sword6 Cuba: h e Next Cuban Revolution

  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

    Henry Louis GatesCHAPTERColor - Class - Identity2018

    O. J. Simpson was famous rather than black; that is, until the African-American community took its lead from the cover of Time and, well, blackened him. The Simpson trial—black entertainment television at its finest. Ralph Ellison's hopeful insistence on the Negro's centrality to American culture finds, at last, a certain tawdry confirmation. "The media generated in people a feeling of being spectators at a show;" the novelist John Edgar Wideman …

  • The annotated African American folktales

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr Henry Louis Gates et al.BOOKThe annotated African American…2018

    The New Annotated African American Folktales revolutionises the canon like no other volume. Henry Louis Gates Jr and Maria Tatar assemble a ground-breaking collection of folktales, myths and legends that revitalise a vibrant African American past. Beginning with introductory essays and 20 seminal African tales, Gates and Tatar present nearly 150 African American stories, among them familiar Brer Rabbit classics but also stories like Witches Who R…

  • Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor

    Adena Spingarn, Henry Louis GatesBOOKUncle Tom2018

    This book tells the story of how Uncle Tom, the Christ-like protagonist of Uncle Tom's Cabin , became a racial epithet and why Americans have been invoking this controversial figure for more than 160 years

  • Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory

    Erica L Ball, Kellie Carter Jackson et al.BOOKReconsidering Roots2017

  • The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art

    David Bindman, Henry Louis Gates et al.BOOKThe image of the Black in African…2017Cited by: 1

    BOOKThe Image of the Black in African and Asian ArtDavid Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor) https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00136 Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17826Copy The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world. Beginning with ancient Egypt—positioned properly as part of African history—this volume focuses …

  • Introduction: Criticism in De Jungle

    Henry Louis GatesARTICLEAfrican American Review2017

    625 African American Review 50.4 (Winter 2017): 625-629© 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press and Saint Louis University BTS #1 - Gates&Anozie_Gates&Anozie 2/14/2018 5:03 PM Page 625 626 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW BTS #1 - Gates&Anozie_Gates&Anozie 2/14/2018 5:03 PM Page 626 HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. 627 BTS #1 - Gates&Anozie_Gates&Anozie 2/14/2018 5:03 PM Page 627 628 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW BTS #1 - Gates&Anozie_Gates&Anozie 2/14/2018 5:03 PM Page 628…

  • Black Literature and Literary Theory

    Henry Louis GatesBOOKBlack Literature and Literary…2016

  • The blackness of blackness: A critique of the sign and the Signifying Monkey

    Henry Louis GatesCHAPTERBlack Literature and Literary…2016

    Signification is the nigger’s occupation.

  • Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography

    Franklin W Knight, Henry Louis Gates et al.BOOKDictionary of Caribbean and…2016

    Two entries in the Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography: Gastón Baquero and Lino Ayllón D'ou

  • Frederick Douglass's Camera Obscura: Representing the Antislave 'Clothed and in Their Own Form

    Henry Louis GatesARTICLECritical Inquiry2015Cited by: 3References: 2

  • A Conversation With Condoleezza Rice: On Leadership

    Open AccessHenry Louis Gates, Condoleezza RiceARTICLEDu Bois Review Social Science…2015Cited by: 1

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  • Visual Culture and the Occupation of the Rhineland

    David Bindman, Henry Louis GatesCHAPTERImage of the Black in Western Art…2014

    3. Visual Culture and the Occupation of the RhinelandVera Ingrid GrantThe Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 1: The Impact of AfricaMost popular images of Africans in twentieth-century Germany followed the pattern in other countries, placing them in humorous contexts mocking their supposedly childlike or savage nature ...AuthorVera Ingrid GrantPublisherHarvard University PressCopyright© 2014 by the President …

  • The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 1: The Impact of Africa

    David Bindman, Henry Louis Gates et al.BOOKImage of the Black in Western Art…2014

    BOOKThe Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 1: The Impact of AfricaDavid Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor) https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00145 Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17704Copy In the 1960s, art patrons Dominique and Jean de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient world to modern time…

  • The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr Henry Louis Gates et al.BOOKThe African Americans2013

    Chronicles five hundred years of African-American history from the origins of slavery on the African continent through Barack Obama's second presidential term, examining contributing political and cultural events

  • The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves and Liberators

    David Bindman, Henry Louis Gates et al.BOOKThe Image of the Black in Western…2012

    BOOKThe Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves and LiberatorsDavid Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor) https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00143 Stable URL: https://www.aaeportal.com/?id=-17364Copy In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from he…

  • African American Citizenship

    Henry Louis GatesBOOKThe Oxford handbook of African…2012

  • The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present

    Jr Henry Louis Gates, Matt Dawson et al.BOOKThe Oxford handbook of African…2012

    When newly liberated African American slaves attempted to enter the marketplace and exercise their rights as citizens of the United States in 1865, few, if any, Americans expected that, a century and a half later, the class divide between black and white Americans would be as wide as it is today. The United States has faced several potential key turning points in the status of African Americans over the course of its history, yet at each of these…