The Henry Louis Gates Jr. Reader

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Educator writer critic intellectual film-maker-Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been widely praised as being one of Americas 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.