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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has discovered what are considered the first books by African-American writers, both of them women, and has published extensively on appreciating African-American literature as part of the Western canon. - Wikipedia

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American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)

Born 16 September 1950

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American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)

Born 16 September 1950
Subjects
African Americans, History, Biography, Race relations, African American authors, American literature, Social conditions, United states, race relations, African americans, history, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, Civilization, Intellectual life, Noirs américains, African americans, social conditions, Genealogy, African americans in literature, African americans, intellectual life, Blacks, History and criticism, African Americans in literature, Blacks in art, African americans, folklore, American literature, african american authors, Civil rights, Encyclopedias
Places
United States, Africa, Schwarze, Abu? Sunbul (Egypt), Egypt, Gedi (Kenya), Great Britain, Jizah (Egypt), Kenya, Khartoum (Sudan), Latin America, Meroe (Extinct city), North Carolina, Nubia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia (Pa.), Philadelphia.., Sudan, USA, Virginia, West Virginia, Zanzibar, États-Unis
People
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), Henry Louis Gates, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), Gates Henry Louis, Hannah Crafts, Harriet A. Jacobs (1813-1897), Henry L. Gates, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1950-), Mary Prince, Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), William E. B. Du Bois
Time
19th century, 20th century, 1975-, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Geschichte 1903, Jusqu'à 1964, To 1863, To 1964

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