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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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in Keyser, WV, The United States

September 16, 1950

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Literature & Fiction, African American Studies, History

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Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is a Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. He is well-known as a literary critic, an editor of literature, and a proponent of black literature and black cultural studies. ...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 39,015 ratings · 4,499 reviews · 269 distinct works • Similar authors

	Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 3,965 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Classic Slave Narratives-paperback by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano 4.33 avg rating — 3,181 ratings — published 1987 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Nellie Y. McKay (Editor), William L. Andrews (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 1,242 ratings — published 1996 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song 4.08 avg rating — 1,192 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Colored People: A Memoir 4.12 avg rating — 1,087 ratings — published 1994 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Tonya Bolden 3.99 avg rating — 701 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism 4.01 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers 3.95 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	100 Amazing Facts About the Negro 4.28 avg rating — 320 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black in Latin America 4.28 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 2011 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Poll for February's group read, AA Nonfiction. Which selection would you like to read? This poll will on remain open until January 7. This should give us enough time to purchase/borrow the book in order to start reading on February 1. Please remember to only vote if you plan on participating.

- South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration by Marcia Chatelain

18 votes, 24.3%

- Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker

12 votes, 16.2%

- Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain

10 votes, 13.5%

- Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

9 votes, 12.2%

- A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America by Lance Freeman

8 votes, 10.8%

Caste by Isabella Wilkerson (write-in)

7 votes, 9.5%

- May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem by Imani Perry

5 votes, 6.8%

- Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I by Stephen L. Harris

5 votes, 6.8%

74 total votes

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