{"title":"Henry Louis Gates","description":"Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or coauthored twenty-four books, including Stony the Road, The Black Church,  and The Black Box, and created twenty-one documentary films, including Finding Your Roots. His six-part PBS documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program-Long Form, as well as a Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and NAACP Image Award.","products":[{"product_id":"stony-the-road-reconstruction-white-supremacy-and-the-rise-of-jim-crow-paperback","title":"Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e' 100 Notable Books of 2019 - One of \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e' Best Books of the year - Finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Nonfiction Literature\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eStony the Road\u003c\/i\u003e presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history--the spot under our country's rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept. \u003ci\u003eStony the Road \u003c\/i\u003elifts the rug.\" --Nell Irvin Painter, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Concise, powerful . . . an important addition to America's evolving view of its own history.\"\u003ci\u003e -The Economist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, by the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Black Church \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Black Box.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked \"a new birth of freedom\" in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America? In this new book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African-American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era to the \"nadir\" of the African-American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough his close reading of the visual culture of this tragic era, Gates reveals the many faces of Jim Crow and how, together, they reinforced a stark color line between white and black Americans. Bringing a lifetime of wisdom to bear as a scholar, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Gates uncovers the roots of structural racism in our own time, while showing how African Americans after slavery combatted it by articulating a vision of a \"New Negro\" to force the nation to recognize their humanity and unique contributions to America as it hurtled toward the modern age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story Gates tells begins with great hope, with the Emancipation Proclamation, Union victory, and the liberation of nearly 4 million enslaved African-Americans. Until 1877, the federal government, goaded by the activism of Frederick Douglass and many others, tried at various turns to sustain their new rights. But the terror unleashed by white paramilitary groups in the former Confederacy, combined with deteriorating economic conditions and a loss of Northern will, restored \"home rule\" to the South. The retreat from Reconstruction was followed by one of the most violent periods in our history, with thousands of black people murdered or lynched and many more afflicted by the degrading impositions of Jim Crow segregation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn essential tour through one of America's fundamental historical tragedies, \u003ci\u003eStony the Road\u003c\/i\u003e is also a story of heroic resistance, as figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells fought to create a counter-narrative, and culture, inside the lion's mouth. As sobering as this tale is, it also has within it the inspiration that comes with encountering the hopes our ancestors advanced against the longest odds.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366007013599,"sku":"9780525559559","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/PDKKT9lQWm9780525559559.webp?v=1789077286"},{"product_id":"the-black-box-writing-the-race-paperback","title":"The Black Box: Writing the Race - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book - Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Christian Gauss Award for Outstanding Books in Literary Scholarship \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions.\" -- Isabel Wilkerson, \u003cb\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Warmth of Other Suns \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCaste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is a literary history of Black America, but it is also an argument that African American history is inextricable from the history of African American literature.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with one another, over the course of the country's history\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDistilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s, legendary Harvard introductory course in African American studies, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Box: Writing the Race\u003c\/i\u003e, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison--these writers used words to create a livable world, a home, for Black people destined to live out their lives in a bitterly racist society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is a book grounded in the beautiful irony that a group formed legally and conceptually by its oppressors to justify brutal subhuman bondage transformed itself \u003ci\u003ethrough the word\u003c\/i\u003e into a community joined in overcoming one of history's most pernicious lies. Out of that contested ground has flowered a resilient, creative, powerful, diverse culture of people who have often disagreed markedly about what it means to be Black, and about how best to use the past to create a more just and equitable future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the epic story of how, through essays and speeches, novels, plays, and poems, a long line of creative thinkers has unveiled the contours of--and resisted confinement in--the black box inside which this nation within a nation has been assigned, willy-nilly, from the nation's founding through to today. This is a book that records the compelling saga of the creation of a people.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368450654431,"sku":"9780593299807","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xUoY5YRj9s9780593299807.webp?v=1789128443"},{"product_id":"the-new-negro-a-history-in-documents-1887-1937-paperback","title":"The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887-1937 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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 broad and sometimes contradictory range of ideological positions. It features dozens of newly unearthed pieces by major figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles S. Johnson, and Drusilla Dunjee Houston as well as writings from Cuba, the US Virgin Islands, Dominica, France, Sierra Leone, South Africa, colonial Zimbabwe, and the United States. Demonstrating how this evocative and supremely protean concept predates its popularization in Alain Locke's 1925 anthology of the same name, \u003ci\u003eThe New Negro\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers from its beginnings as a response to Henry Grady's famous \"New South\" address in 1886 through the Harlem Renaissance and the New Deal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOpening a fascinating window into a largely unexplored chapter in African American, Afro-Latin American, and African intellectual history, this groundbreaking anthology includes writings by Gwendolyn Bennett, Marita Bonner, John Edward Bruce (\"Bruce Grit\"), Nannie Helen Burroughs, Charles W. Chesnutt, James Bertram Clarke (\"José Clarana,\" \"Jaime Gil\"), Anna Julia Cooper, Alexander Crummell, Countee Cullen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Marcus Garvey, Hubert Harrison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, D. Hamilton Jackson, Fenton Johnson, Claude McKay, Oscar Micheaux, Jeanne \"Jane\" Nardal, Jean Toomer, Gustavo Urrutia, Booker T. Washington, Dorothy West, Ruth Whitehead Whaley, Fannie Barrier Williams, Carter G. 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In Gates's telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth--as it is in heaven.\" --Jon Meacham, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eStony the Road\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Black Box\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity--an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today's political landscape. At road's end, and after Gates's distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative--as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community's most critical personal and social issues. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery's formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn't even past--Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community's most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society's darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369333850335,"sku":"9781984880352","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/DNka2Uq4w-9781984880352.webp?v=1789140644"},{"product_id":"the-future-of-the-race-paperback","title":"The Future of the Race - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlmost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the \"talented tenth,\" an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual descendants--reassess that relationship and its implications for the future of black Americans. If the 1990s are the best of times for the heirs of the Talented Tenth, they are unquestionably worse for the growing black underclass. As they examine the origins of this widening gulf and propose solutions for it, Gates and West combine memoir and biography, social analysis and cultural survey into a book that is incisive and compassionate, cautionary and deeply stirring. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Today's most public African American intellectual voices...West and Gates have made a valuable contribution.\"--Julian Bond, Philadelphia Inquirer \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Brilliant...a social, cultural and political blueprint...that attempts to illumine the future path for blacks and American democracy.\"--New York Daily News \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Henry Louis Gates., Jr., and Cornel West are among the most renowned American intellectuals of our time.\"--New York Times Book Review\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the \"talented tenth,\" an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual descendants--reassess that relationship and its implications for the future of black Americans. If the 1990s are the best of times for the heirs of the Talented Tenth, they are unquestionably worse for the growing black underclass. 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For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates argues, is as imaginary as the creature that the poet Wallace Stevens conjured in his poem \"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Baldwin, Colin Powell, Harry Belafonte, Bill T. Jones, Louis Farrakhan, Anatole Broyard, Albert Murray -- all these men came from modest circumstances and all achieved preeminence. They are people, Gates writes, \"who have shaped the world as much as they were shaped by it, who gave as good as they got.\" Three are writers -- James Baldwin, who was once regarded as the intellectual spokesman for the black community; Anatole Broyard, who chose to hide his black heritage so as to be seen as a writer on his own terms; and Albert Murray, who rose to the pinnacle of literary criticism. There is the general-turned-political-figure Colin Powell, who discusses his interactions with three United States presidents; there is Harry Belafonte, the entertainer whose career has been distinct from his fervent activism; there is Bill T. Jones, dancer and choreographer, whose fierce courage and creativity have continued in the shadow of AIDS; and there is Louis Farrakhan, the controversial religious leader. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese men and others speak of their lives with candor and intimacy, and what emerges from this portfolio of influential men is a strikingly varied and profound set of ideas about what it means to be a black man in America today.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book of stories, writes Henry Louis Gates, \"and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'\" As some remarkable men talk about their lives, many perspectives on race and gender emerge. For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates argues, is as imaginary as the creature that the poet Wallace Stevens conjured in his poem \"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.\" \u003cbr\u003eJames Baldwin, Colin Powell, Harry Belafonte, Bill T. Jones, Louis Farrakhan, Anatole Broyard, Albert Murray -- all these men came from modest circumstances and all achieved preeminence. They are people, Gates writes, \"who have shaped the world as much as they were shaped by it, who gave as good as they got.\" Three are writers -- James Baldwin, who was once regarded as the intellectual spokesman for the black community; Anatole Broyard, who chose to hide his black heritage so as to be seen as a writer on his own terms; and Albert Murray, who rose to the pinnacle of literary criticism. 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