27 Apr. But its not the only tradition full of great ideas. Gates argues instead for an understanding and appreciation of the logical interconnection of cultural works, of their integrated diversity: Every black American text must confess to a complex ancestry, one high and low (that is, literary and vernacular) but also one white and black, he commented in the New York Times Book Review. GATES: And they said, OK, we won't tell you. The doctor then turned to Gatess mother and explained that her sons problem was psychosomatica black boy from Appalachia who wanted to be a doctor in the mid-1960s was an overachiever. Such ideas inspired a 1990s critique by Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard historian and literary theorist. Gates's Black Periodical Literature Project, begun in 1980, also benefited from the acclaim brought by the republication of Our Nig. The American Lives series spawned multiple books and three television specials, including 2007's Oprah's Roots, in which Gates examined the genealogy of perhaps his most famous subject, Oprah Winfrey. Bar-num, and the result is Henry Louis Gates, Jr. He is most recognized for his extensive research of African American history and literature, and for developing and expanding the African American Studies program at Harvard University. 1975 After a month at Yale Law School, Gates withdrew from the program. GROSS: And it's a way of outing people as not being who they think they are and not recognizing that we're all descended from so many different people. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. 1950-PERSONAL: Born September 16, 1950, in Keyser, WV; son of Henry Louis and Pauline Augusta (Coleman) Gates; married Sharon Lynn Adams (a . My mother would say, tell them about your brother who's a dentist. Silence. Thank you for being you. He is also co-editor of Africana 2000, a massive CD-ROM encyclopedia of the African diaspora, as well as its print version, Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999). Education is crucial, Gates explained to V. R. Peterson in Essence, to combat damaging racial stereotypes and beliefs: I find the lack of knowledge about Black people that Black people have distressing. Family Tree . GROSS: Is that too personal? Henry the first | Books | The Guardian There he found that he shared 10 of the 11 DNA matches with offspring of Niall of the Nine Hostages, the fourth century warlord who created one of the dominant strains of Irish genealogy because he had so many offspring. The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers, thirty volumes, Oxford University Press, 1988.
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