Henry louis gates jr. biography
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Real Name
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Date of Birth
September 16, 1950
Title(s)
United States Secretary of the Treasury
Occupation(s)
Teacher
Historian
Politician
Biography[]
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.
American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950), popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip",[1][2] is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.[3] He rediscovered the earliest known African-American novels and has published extensively on the recognition of African-American literature as part of the Western canon.
In addition to producing and hosting previous series on the history and genealogy of prominent American figures, since 2012, Gates has been host of the television series Finding Your Roots on PBS. The series combines the work of expert researchers in genealogy, history, and historical research
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Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (born September 16, 1950, Keyser, West Virginia, U.S.) is an American literary critic and scholar known for his pioneering theories of African and African American literature. He introduced the notion of signifyin’ to represent African and African American literary and musical history as a continuing reflection and reinterpretation of what has come before.
(Read Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s Britannica essay on “Monuments of Hope.”)
Gates’s father, Henry Louis Gates, Sr., worked in a paper mill and moonlighted as a janitor; his mother, Pauline Coleman Gates, cleaned houses. Gates graduated as valedictorian of his high school class in 1968 and attended a local junior college before enrolling at Yale University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in history in 1973. After receiving two fellowships in 1970, he took a leave of absence from Yale