Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
✓ Source-basedstableAmerican literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)
, popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Also inDeutsch
Photos 5
Gates in 2007
Gates, Sgt. James Crowley and President Barack Obama toast at the start of their meeting in the White House Rose Garden, July 30, 2009
Gates speaks on a panel about race in America on the Understanding Our World Stage at the National Book Festival on August 31, 2019
Gates accepts the Peabody Award for The African Americans: Many Rivers to CrossIn their own words 1
There haven’t been fundamental structural changes in America. There’s been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama.
Interview with The Root, July 21, 2009.
Awards 11
In their orbit 1
Connected to Henry 6
André HollandAlso in Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (2022)
Steven ShainbergAlso in Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are) (2021)
Sam PollardAlso in Black Art: In the Absence of Light (2021)
Maya AngelouAlso won NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction
Leszek KołakowskiAlso won Jefferson Lecture
Doris Kearns GoodwinAlso won Carl Sandburg Literary AwardAbout this person
Henry Louis Gates Jr., popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He rediscovered the earliest known African-American novels and has published extensively on the recognition of African-American literature as part of the Western canon.
United StatesFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.