Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
He is a recipient of the MacArthur Prize..
Davis), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience, Six Women\'s Slave Narratives , and In the House of Oshugbo: Critical Essays on Wole Soyinka .
Wilson\'s 1859 novel, The Slave\'s Narrative (with the late Charles T.
He is also the editor of the critically-acclaimed edition of Our Nig, an annotated reprint of Harriet E.
With Cornel West, he co-wrote The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country and The Future of the Race .
Professor Gates is the author of Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self, Wonders of the African World, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, Loose Cannons: Notes on the Culture Wars , and Colored People: A Memoir .
DuBois professor of humanities in 1991. was Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Africana Studies at Cornell University, and also tenured at Yale, Duke, and Harvard, where he was appointed W.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr
