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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
2022
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The Black Box: Writing the Race
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
2024
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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, Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest searching for the origin of “blackness.” The results help us see 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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