Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

North Carolina · connectedBorn 1950

American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)

Worked at Duke University

writer, essayist, literary critic, genealogist, university teacher, historian

Quotations with a citation

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. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Open Library Black folk · 1939 View library record ↗ Open Library Black reconstruction in America 1860-1880 · 1935 View library record ↗ Open Library Dusk of dawn · 1940 View library record ↗ Open Library The African American national biography · 2008 View library record ↗ Open Library The Philadelphia Negro · 1889 View library record ↗ Open Library The Suppression Of The Slave Trade To The United States Of America 1638-1870 · 1896 View library record ↗

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