The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings from his many fields of interest and expertise.

From his earliest work of literary-historical excavation in 1982, through his current writings on the history and science of African American genealogy, the essays collected here follow his path as historian, theorist, canon-builder, and cultural critic, revealing a thinker of uncommon breadth whose work is uniformly guided by the drive to uncover and restore a history that has for too long been buried and denied.

An invaluable reference, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader will be a singular reflection of one of our most gifted minds.

• The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism
• Colored People: A Memoir
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
• Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self
• Between the World and Me
• African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
• The Mis-Education of the Negro
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
• Wonders of the African World