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Black Lives 1900: W. E. B. du Bois at the Paris Exposition by Jacqueline Francis (Introduction by); Stephen G. Hall (Introduction by); David Adjaye (Foreword by); Henry Louis Gates (Contribution by)
Category: History
How W.E.B. Du Bois combined photographs and infographics to communicate the everyday realities of Black lives and the inequities of race in AmericaAt the 1900 Paris Exposition the pioneering sociologist and activist W.E.B. Du Bois presented an exhibit representing the progress of African Americans since ...Show more
Black Reconstruction in America (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois) - An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor); W. E. B. Du Bois; David Levering Lewis (Introduction by)
Category: History
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological ...Show more
Cane by Jean Toomer; Rudolph P. Byrd (Afterword by); Henry Louis Gates (Afterword by)
Category: Fiction
Cane is a collection of short stories, poems, and dramas, written by Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer in 1923. The stories focus around African-American culture in both the North and the South during times when racism and Jim Crow laws still abounded. Vignettes of the lives of various African-Ameri ...Show more
Jean-Michel Basquiat Handbook by Larry Warsh (Text by, Foreword by, Editor); Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Contribution by); Henry Geldzahler (Contribution by); Hannah Alderfer (Designed by)
Category: Art and Design
Jean-Michel Basquiat Handbook navigates readers through the art, iconography and history of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). One of the first African American artists to reach international stature and wealth in the art world, Basquiat was celebrated for his fusion of multicultural sym ...Show more
Stony the Road - Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates
Category: History
The New York Times bestseller. A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mi ...Show more
The Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The Annotated Books
Collected for the first time, these nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature. Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The New Annotated A ...Show more
The Black Box - Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Category: Reference
"Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African-American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions." -- Isabel Wilkerson, author of The W ...Show more
The Fateful Triangle - Race, Ethnicity, Nation by Stuart Hall; Kobena Mercer; Henry Louis Gates (Foreword by)
Category: Reference | Series: The\W. E. B. du Bois Lectures
In The Fateful Triangle--drawn from lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1994--one of the founding figures of cultural studies reflects on the divisive, often deadly consequences of our contemporary politics of identification. As he untangles the power relations that permeate categories of race, ...Show more
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Henry Louis (AFT) Edwidge (FRW); Gates Zora Neale; Danticat Hurston
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
With a Foreword by Edwidge Danticat and an Afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wi ...Show more
Who's Black and Why? - A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor); Andrew S. Curran (Editor)
Category: History
The first translation and publication of sixteen submissions to the notorious eighteenth-century Bordeaux essay contest on the cause of black skin--an indispensable chronicle of the rise of scientifically based, anti-Black racism.In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences announced a contest for the b ...Show more