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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Chair of Afro-American Studies
Director of the W.E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research ,
Harvard University Professor Gates is the author of several works of literary criticism, including Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the 'Racial'' Self (Oxford University Press, 1987); The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (Oxford University Press, 1988), 1989 winner of the American Book Award; and Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (Oxford University Press, 1992). He has also authored Colored People: A Memoir (Knopf, 1994), which traces his childhood experiences in a small West Virginia town in the 1950s and 1960s; The Future of the Race (Knopf, 1996), co-authored with Cornel West; and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (Random House, 1997)
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