Henry Louis Gates

A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, by one of the nation's major literary critics. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates Jr's legendary Harvard course in African American Studies, The Black Box - Writing the Race is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of...

An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racism This book brings together a wealth of readings on the metaphor of the "New Negro," charting how generations of thinkers debated its meaning and seized on its potency to stake out an astonishingly...

A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans use the written word to define themselves, by one of America's major literary critics. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates Jr's legendary Harvard course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led...