Best Selling Books by Henry Louis Gates

Henry Louis Gates is the author of The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin (2007), Josephine Baker and La Revue Nègre (1998), Our Gang (2015), Tara Revisited (1995), Wole Soyinka (1986).

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The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin

release date: Jan 01, 2007
The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin
Presents an annotated version of Harriet Beecher Stowe''s classic novel "Uncle Tom''s Cabin" that describes the lives of slaves and abolitionists in the 1800s, historical discussions of the Underground Railroad, slave trade, and plantation life, and advertisements that were influenced by the novel.

Josephine Baker and La Revue Nègre

release date: Jan 01, 1998
Josephine Baker and La Revue Nègre
Profiles forty-five lithographs by Paul Colin which portray the uproar African-Americans created in music and dance in Paris after World War I.

Our Gang

release date: Jan 01, 2015
Our Gang
The story of race and Our Gang, or The Little Rascals, is rife with the contradictions and aspirations of the sharply conflicted, changing American society that was its theater. Exposing these connections for the first time, Julia Lee shows us how much this series, from the first silent shorts in 1922 to its television revival in the 1950s, reveals about black and white American culture--on either side of the silver screen.

Tara Revisited

release date: Jan 01, 1995
Tara Revisited
Investigates the lives of Southern women during the Civil War. Includes photographs, drawings, and excerpts from letters, diaries, personal narratives, and newspaper articles.

Wole Soyinka

release date: Jan 22, 1986
Wole Soyinka
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Caixa-preta: Escrevendo a raça

release date: Jun 28, 2024
Caixa-preta: Escrevendo a raça
Um dos mais respeitados pesquisadores em culturas afro-americanas faz um balanço magnífico de como os negros dos Estados Unidos usaram a escrita para resistir às mentiras do racismo. Henry Louis Gates Jr. retrata de maneira comovente aqueles que nunca deixaram ninguém lhes dizer como exercer sua negritude. A caixa-preta é uma figura recorrente na literatura afro-americana. É uma metáfora para o aprisionamento do racismo, que inviabiliza o alcance da liberdade mas não consegue frear essa busca incessante; matéria que permeia a experiência em toda diáspora africana e sua frutífera tradição literária. Neste estudo, Henry Louis Gates Jr. se detém à história dos Estados Unidos, mas suas reflexões ecoam no solo brasileiro. Pelo menos desde o século XVIII, aponta o professor, há tentativas consistentes de expressar e moldar a realidade negra. Em 1773, Phillis Wheatley torna-se a primeira poeta afro-americana a ser publicada e, em 1845, o abolicionista Frederick Douglass lança sua impactante autobiografia. A corrente literária segue ao longo dos séculos com W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, James Baldwin e Toni Morrison, primeira mulher negra a ganhar um prêmio Nobel de Literatura, em 1993. Todos eles usaram a escrita para criar um mundo habitável –— um lar — para si e para os seus. A raça, conceito usado para desumanizar africanos e justificar a escravidão, é incorporada à literatura como o sedimento de uma comunidade cujas resistência e transcendência estão no cerne de sua autodefinição. Desse terreno contestado floresceu uma cultura resiliente, criativa e diversificada, formada por pessoas que muitas vezes discordaram sobre o que significa ser negro. Caixa-preta: Escrevendo a raça retrata não só um movimento literário, mas a criação de uma comunidade. "O fascínio deste livro está na sua insistência de que um levantamento da história afro-americana é incompleto sem uma consideração especial de como a escrita a sustentou." — The New York Times "Um estudo da arte e das contradições que definem a formação de um povo." — Elle "Uma crônica multifacetada e esclarecedora. Um apelo para proteger a livre troca de ideias na sala de aula e fora dela." — Booklist

Black Church

release date: Jan 11, 2023
Black Church
Voici une fresque passionnante qui retrace l''histoire des Africains-Américains sous un angle inédit. Lorsque les Africains déportés dans le Nouveau-Monde découvrent la religion des esclavagistes, ils s''en emparent pour leur renvoyer un tout autre message: un message de dignité, d''égalité et de liberté. Ils bâtissent alors une Église tout à fait singulière, au carrefour de leur lecture de la Bible et de leurs propres héritages spirituels et religieux. Depuis lors, l''Église noire est restée un centre de gravité spirituel, culturel, politique et social pour le peuple africain-américain. Elle fut une ressource décisive de résistance à la suprématie blanche et de mobilisation en vue de l''émancipation et de l''égalité des droits. Elle fut aussi un incubateur de talents musicaux et oratoires qui forgeront la culture noire, se répercuteront dans la société américaine et rayonneront dans le monde. Depuis sa fondation, elle est un creuset où la communauté noire travaille les problèmes personnels, sociaux et politiques qui la taraudent. Pourtant, aujourd''hui, l''Église noire s''interroge sur sa place dans la société. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., qui connut la ségrégation dans son enfance, brosse un tableau de plus de cinq siècles, depuis la trouble rencontre entre le christianisme et la traite transatlantique jusqu''à la situation politique actuelle.

Os negros na América Latina

release date: Apr 15, 2014
Os negros na América Latina
Segundo Henry Louis Gates Jr., a história da diáspora africana é em grande medida a história dos ciclos econômicos - mineração, açúcar, tabaco, pecuária - das colônias europeias no Novo Mundo. A partir da descoberta da América, milhões de homens e mulheres foram transportados em horríveis condições até portos como os de Havana, Veracruz e Salvador. Aqueles que sobreviviam à viagem em geral trabalhavam até a morte nas fazendas, minas e cidades coloniais, assim como seus descendentes. A extinção do cativeiro, mais de três séculos depois, pouco alterou o estatuto socioeconômico dos negros e mestiços. Oprimidos por elites racistas, com raras exceções os afrodescendentes latino-americanos permanecem confinados nos níveis mais baixos da escala social. Em pleno século XXI, eles ainda batalham para conquistar seus direitos de cidadãos plenos e, sobretudo, a consciência de sua própria etnicidade. Os negros na América Latina se origina da aclamada série de documentários homônima transmitida em 2010 pela televisão pública dos Estados Unidos. Produtor executivo, roteirista e apresentador da série, Gates procurou mostrar ao público norte-americano as peculiaridades das relações raciais em seis países do subcontinente: Brasil, México, Peru, República Dominicana, Haiti e Cuba. Neste livro o autor amplia as reflexões realizadas diante das câmeras para traçar um panorama abrangente das condições de vida dos negros na atual conjuntura latino-americana.

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

release date: Jan 01, 2004
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Welcomed on publication as "brilliant, definitive, and a joy to teach from," The Norton Anthology of African American Literature was adopted at more than 1,275 colleges and universities worldwide. Now, the new Second Edition offers these highlights.

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1

release date: May 07, 2012
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1
Slaves and Liberators looks at the political implications of the representation of Africans, from the morality of slavery, through abolitionism, to European imperialism in Africa. Popular imagery and great works, like Turner’s Slave Ship, cast light on widely differing European responses to Africans and their descendants.

Gloria Naylor

release date: Aug 01, 1999
Gloria Naylor
In the history of the African-American literary tradition, perhaps no author has been immersed in the formal history of that tradition than Gloria Naylor. As an undergraduate student of Afro-American literature at Brooklyn College and a graduate student of Afro-American studies at Yale, Naylor has analyzed the works of her male and female antecedents in a manner that was impossible before the late seventies. And, while she is a citizen of the republic of literature in the broadest and most cosmopolitan sense, her work suggest formal linkage to that of Ann Petry, James Baldwin, and, more recently, Toni Morrison. -- from the Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Figures in Black

release date: Jan 01, 1987

The Signifying Monkey

release date: Jan 01, 1988
The Signifying Monkey
Explores the relationship between African and Afro-American vernacular traditions and Black literature

Three Classic African-American Novels

release date: Jun 07, 1999
Three Classic African-American Novels
William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore witness to the experience of their people under slavery, create a portrait of black life in the 19th century in these three novels. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Toni Morrison Reader

release date: Aug 20, 2024
Toni Morrison Reader
Toni Morrison Reader has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois

release date: Feb 01, 2007
The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. DuBois''s sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history. The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois is a collection of Du Bois''s works in 19 volumes. Each work is introduced by a brief essay by an eminent scholar and each volume includes a general introduction from the series editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Spanning over a half-century, this collection is essential for anyone interested in African American history.

Four Families of St. Mary's County

release date: Jan 01, 2022

Life Lincoln

release date: Jan 01, 2015
Life Lincoln
One hundred fifty years ago, the United States lost its greatest leader. In this commemorative volume, LIFE recounts the life. Our narrative was written by the award-winning Allen C. Guelzo, author of Gettysburg, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. leads us into this stirring story with his moving foreword. Then there are the pictures: photographs, many of them rarely seen, of Lincoln, the Civil War-his life and times. History come alive, as only LIFE presents it.
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