Henry Louis Gates Jr.

A profound new rendering of the struggle by African Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counterrevolution 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 mind....

Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s, legendary Harvard introductory course in African American studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way.

An unprecedented historical and literary event, this tale written in the 1850s is the only known novel by a female African American slave...

From the New York Times best-selling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African-American experience, a powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community's abiding rock and its fortress....

A compendium of historical curiosities intended to illuminate the sheer complexity and diversity of being "Negro" in the world....

Henry Louis Gates Jr. shows us, the tools ofcutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical research now allow us to learn moreabout our roots, looking further back in time than ever before....

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination....

A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history, feminism, and activism who helped pave the way for modern social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name....

This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In an account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, Gates Jr. delivers a book that is illuminating....

Race is an elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know it when we see it, it's not an easy concept to define. The book argues that, to understand what we mean by race, social scientists need to engage new perspectives coming from genomics, medicine, and health policy....

Finding Oprah's Roots will give listeners an appreciation for the contributions of history's unsung heroes and also equip them with tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own pasts....

Here, scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., backed by an elite team of geneticists and researchers, takes 19 extraordinary African Americans on a once unimaginable journey, tracing family sagas through US history and back to Africa....