| LC control no. | n 81146304 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. |
| Variant(s) | Gates, Henry, 1950- Gates, H. L., 1950- Gates, Skip Gates, Henry Louis |
| See also | Employer: Harvard University |
| Other standard no. | 0000000121409479 79046442 Q561458 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Tanzania |
| Located | Cambridge (Mass.) |
| Birth date | 1950-09-16 |
| Place of birth | Piedmont (W. Va.) |
| Field of activity | Education, Higher Blacks--America American literature--African American authors Genealogy |
| Affiliation | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Yale University Clare College (University of Cambridge) Harvard University |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Critics Essayists College teachers Editors |
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| Found in | Davis, C.T. Black is the color of the cosmos, 1982 (a.e.) CIP galley t.p. (Henry-Louis Gates, Jr.) pub. info. (prof., Afro-American stud., Yale Univ.) book t.p. (Henry Louis Gates) Black literature and literary theory, 1984: CIP t.p. (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) CIP data sheet (b. Sept. 16, 1950) His Colored people, 1993: CIP t.p. (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) Pub. info (Skip Gates) Africana, 1999: CIP t.p. (Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard Univ.) Contrib. biog. info. for The new Negro (Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University) Gordon Parks, 2012: v. 1, p. 5 (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Gates, Henry Louis Jr.; literary critic, essayist, educator, magazine and journal editor, publisher, literary scholar; born 16 September 1950 in Piedmont, Mineral County, West Virginia, United States; graduated with a degree in History from Yale University (1973), took a year off to travel in East Africa and work as a volunteer in a hospital in rural Tanzania; won a fellowship to Clare College, Cambridge, where he pursued a PhD in history; editor, the Black Periodical Project, which he initiated at Yale; as a general editor or co-editor of anthologies and reference books, including the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, and the Encyclopedia Africana, he has been the gatekeeper of the institutional study of black literature and culture in the American academy since the 1980s) OCLC database, 6 March 2021 (access points: Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., Gates, Henry Louis, Gates, Henry Louis, 1950- Gates, Henry L., Gates, Henry, Gates, H.L.) |
| Not found in | ORCID, 28 Feb. 2021 |
| Associated language | eng |
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