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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. The author of numerous books, including the widely acclaimed memoir Colored People, Professor Gates has also edited several anthologies and is coeditor with Kwame Anthony Appiah of Encarta Africana, an encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. An influential cultural critic, he is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and other publications and is the recipient of many honors, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal.


Henry Louis Gates Jr. on What Makes a “Classic” African American Text

“They reveal the human universal through the African American particular: All true art, all classics, do this.”
January 31, 2023  By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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The Enslaved Man Who Escaped George Washington—Twice

How 30,000 Enslaved People Gained Freedom by
Defecting to the British
October 24, 2017  By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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