Henry 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, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or coauthored 22 books and created 18 documentary films, including Finding Your Roots. His six-part PBS documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program-Long Form, as well as a Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and NAACP Image Award.
ARTICLES FEATURING HENRY LOUIS
An Unreconstructed Nation: On Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s “Stony the Road”
A new history of Reconstruction traces the roots of American “respectability” politics, and reveals an argument conducted largely through artwork....
