Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual who is a teacher at Harvard University.
He was married to Sharon Adams and they have two children.
Filmography
- Great Railway Journeys
- The Two Nations Of Black America
- Unchained Memories
- African Americans Lives
- Looking For Lincoln
- Faces Of America
- Black In Latin America
- Finding Your Roots
- The African Americans Many Rivers To Cross
- Black America Since MLK And Still I Rise
- Africas Great Civilizations
- Reconstruction America After The Civil War
- Watchmen (2019)
Writings
- Figures In Black Words Signs And The Racial Self
- The Signifying Monkey
- Loose Cannons Notes On The Culture Wars
- Colored People A Memoir
- The Future Of The Race with Cornel West
- Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Black Man
- Wonders Of The African World
- The African American Century How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Century
- The Trials Of Phillis Wheatley Americas First Black Poet And Her Encounters With The Founding Fathers
- Finding Oprahs Roots Finding Your Own
- In Search Of Our Roots How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
- Faces Of America How 12 Extraordinary Americans Reclaimed Their Pasts
- Stony The Road Reconstruction White Supremacy And The Rise Of Jim Crow
