Works by
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
(Writer)
[1950 - ]

• Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self (1987).

• The Signifying Monkey: Towards A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (1988) -- Winner American Book Award

• Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992)

• A Memoir (1994)

• Colored People: The Future of the Race (1996) with Cornel West

• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (1997)

• Wonders of the African World (1999)
  Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999)

• The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Century (2000)

• The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (with Nellie Y. McKay, W. W. Norton, 1996; 2nd. Ed., 2005), a standard textbook

• The Bondwoman's Narrative, a Novel by Hannah Crafts (2002)
  First known novel written by an African American woman who had been a slave.

• Africana; The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience ( ) with Anthony Anthony Appiah

Films

• "From Great Zimbabwe to Kilimatinde," BBC/PBS, Great Rail Journeys, Narrator and Screenwriter, BBC/PBS, 1996.

• "The Two Nations of Black America," Host and Scriptwriter, Frontline, WGBH-TV, February 11, 1998.

• Leaving Eldridge Cleaver, WGBH, 1999

• Wonders of the African World, PBS, October 25-27, 1999 (six-part series) (Shown as Into Africa on BBC-2 in the United Kingdom and South Africa, Summer, 1999)

• African American Lives, Host and Narrator, PBS, February, 2006

• The Bondwoman's Narrative
  Discovered by Gates, this is the 

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