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27 Books by Henry Louis Gates, Jr


Click for more detail about Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
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Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow
Click for more detail about The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books) by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books)
Click for more detail about 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
Click for more detail about Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion To The Pbs Series by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion To The Pbs Series
Click for more detail about The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (3rd Edition) by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O’Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wall
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (3rd Edition)
Click for more detail about The African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross
Click for more detail about The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader
Click for more detail about Life Upon These Shores: Looking At African American History, 1513-2008 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Life Upon These Shores: Looking At African American History, 1513-2008
Click for more detail about Black in Latin America by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Black in Latin America
Click for more detail about Lincoln On Race And Slavery by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Lincoln On Race And Slavery
Click for more detail about In Search Of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
In Search Of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
Click for more detail about Finding Oprah’s Roots: Finding Your Own by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Finding Oprah’s Roots: Finding Your Own
Click for more detail about Africana: Civil Rights: An A-to-Z Reference of the Movement that Changed America by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Africana: Civil Rights: An A-to-Z Reference of the Movement that Changed America
Click for more detail about America Behind The Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
America Behind The Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans
Click for more detail about The Third World of Theory (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature) by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Third World of Theory (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature)
Click for more detail about Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture by Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed
Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture
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Africana
Click for more detail about Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

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Chinua Achebe: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary Series)

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Wole Soyinka: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary Series)
Click for more detail about The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Click for more detail about The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Third Edition Vol. 1 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Valerie A. Smith
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Third Edition Vol. 1
Click for more detail about Colored People: A Memoir by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Colored People: A Memoir
Click for more detail about Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars
Click for more detail about The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
Click for more detail about Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the “Racial“ Self by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the “Racial“ Self