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Henry Louis Gates Jr

Henry Louis Gates Jr

American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)

Henry Louis Gates Jr., popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of...

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The Black Box

By Henry Louis Gates Jr

General Nonfiction

A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates Jr's legendary Harvard course in African American Studies,…