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  • The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country

    The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country - Paperback

    The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country - Paperback

    By Henry Louis Jr. Gates and Cornel West

About Henry Louis Jr. Gates Books

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American research at Harvard University. Among his many books are Colored People: A Memoir and Wonders of the African World. He won an American Book Award in 1989 for The Signifying Monkey. Cornel West is Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., University Professor of Harvard University. He is the author of many books including The American Evasion of Philosophy, The Future of Race (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) and the best-selling Race Matters. He won an American Book Award in 1993 for his multi-volume work Beyond Euro-centrism and Multiculturalism. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.