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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Andrew S. Curran

The Black Box: Writing the Race

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Colored People: A Memoir

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887–1937

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Martha H. Patterson

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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A. Philip Randolph Lambasts the Old Crowd

A Black socialist magazine urges solidarity and action in 1919.

by A. Philip Randolph, Martha H. Patterson, Henry Louis Gates Jr. via HNN on September 9, 2025

Boxes with Black American history inside

The Black Box of Race

In a circumscribed universe, Black Americans have ceaselessly reinvented themselves.

by Henry Louis Gates Jr. via The Atlantic on March 16, 2024

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Great Zimbabwe, circa 1996; photograph by Graham Smith.

Finding My Roots

The storytellers who taught me over the course of my career all knew how to bring Black history vividly to life.

by Henry Louis Gates Jr. via New York Review of Books on September 29, 2023

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

How Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Helped Remake the Literary Canon

The scholar has changed the way Black authors get read and the way Black history gets told.

by Henry Louis Gates Jr., David Remnick via The New Yorker on February 19, 2022

Painting by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, "Africa: A European Merchant Bartering with a Black Chief"

Inventing the Science of Race

In 1741, the Royal Academy of Sciences held a contest searching for the origin of “blackness.” The results show how Enlightenment thinkers justified slavery.

by Andrew S. Curran, Henry Louis Gates Jr. via New York Review of Books on November 24, 2021

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