Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. The author of numerous books, including the widely acclaimed memoir Colored People, Professor Gates has also edited several anthologies and is coeditor with Kwame Anthony Appiah of Encarta Africana, an encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. An influential cultural critic, he is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and other publications and is the recipient of many honors, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal.
"Affecting, beautifully written and morally complex...The heart of
the memoir is Gates' portrait of his family, and its placement in a
black society whose strength, richness and self-confidence thrived
in the darkness of segregation."--Richard Eder, The Los Angeles
Times
"[Colored People] may well become a classic of American
memoir."--The Boston Globe
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