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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. 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. 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.


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  • Skip Gates
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13th

2016
as Himself

Ralph Ellison: An American Journey

2002
as Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Ken Burns: America's Storyteller

2017
as Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Color Adjustment

1992
as Henry Louis Gates Jr.

A Place of Our Own

2004
as Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Hip-Hop Fellow

2014
as Henry Louis Gates Jr.