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Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950), popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", [1] [2] is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Robert Downey Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal both descend from European-American immigrants. Robert's father, Robert Downey Sr., acts as the episode's unofficial third guest, sitting with Professor Gates as he reads his son's book of life.
In 2013, Yacovone co-authored The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross [3] with Henry Louis Gates Jr, a book of the television series hosted by Gates Jr. [4] The book has been criticized by some for not dating back to pre-slavery times.
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is a six-part documentary miniseries written and presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr. It aired for the first time on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the fall of 2013, beginning with episode 1, "The Black Atlantic (1500–1800)", on October 22, 8–9 p.m. ET on PBS, and every consecutive Tuesday through to episode 6, "A More Perfect Union (1968 ...
A number of the Jefferson Lectures have led to books, including Holton's The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens, [20] John Hope Franklin's Racial Equality in America, [21] Henry Louis Gates' The Trials of Phillis Wheatley [22] and Jaroslav Pelikan's The Vindication of Tradition. [23]
Harriet E. Wilson (March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) was an African-American novelist.She was the first African American to publish a novel in North America.. Her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, and was not widely known.
Stony the Road offers a historical overview of the social advances of Reconstruction, the subsequent rollback of those policies with the resurgence of white supremacy during the Redemption period, and the attempts by African-Americans to change the cultural image of black people in the United States during the Harlem Renaissance, otherwise known as the New Negro Movement.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, gift of Henry Louis Gates Jr. Crafts explores the experiences of Hannah, a house slave in North Carolina. In the preface, Crafts writes that she hopes "to show how slavery blights the lives of whites as well as the black race."
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