The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, includingColored People,Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man,In Search of Our Roots, and the American Book Award-winningThe Signifying Monkey. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.