Books
Below is a list of selected books written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr, which may be
of interest to you.
- In Search of Our Roots (Crown, 2009)
- Finding Oprah's Roots, Finding Your Own (Crown, 2007)
- America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans
(Warner Books, 2004)
- The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Poet and Her
Encounters with the Founding Fathers (Basic Civitas Books, 2003)
- The African-American Century, with Cornel West (The Free Press,
2000)
- Wonders of the African American World (Knopf, 1999)
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (Random House, 1997)
- The Future of the Race, with Cornel West (Knopf, 1996)
- Colored People: A Memoir (Knopf, 1994)
- Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (Oxford University Press, 1992)
- The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
(Oxford UP, 1988)
- Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self (Oxford UP, 1987)
Finding the connection
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