Henry Louis Gates Jr Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Henry Louis Gates Jr on X
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker. Dir. of @HutchinsCenter, African & African American Research & Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, @Harvard. #FindingYourRoots - Tuesdays on @PBS.
The Wife of Bath
Geoffrey ChaucerHenry Louis Gates JrAward-winning author Zadie Smith makes her playwriting debut with #TheWifeofWillesden, transforming Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath into a beautiful, bawdy new comedy! See it at @americanrep now thru MAR 17 → https://t.co/J8SjInGejE 🍻
Hardcover, 2018
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora
Sarah Ladipo ManyikaHenry Louis Gates JrLIVE from the @HutchinsCenter: I am in conversation with Sarah Ladipo Manyika on her brilliant book, 'Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora.' Tune in Now! https://t.co/gJooGgOFOi
Hardcover, 2023
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Invisible Man
Ralph EllisonHenry Louis Gates JrInvisible Man... chart[s] the coming to consciousness of a sensitive protagonist moving from blindness and an inability to do little more than react to his environment, to the insight gained by wresting control of his identity from social forces and strong individuals...
Hardcover, 1994
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Vincent BrownHenry Louis Gates JrJoin us at Noon ET today for the first @HutchinsCenter @DuBoisResFellow colloquium of the spring semester with my dear friend and colleague, Vince Brown! He will be talking on his new book, 'Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War'. Register: https://t.co/Jb88fgyUws https://t.co/9eqK1pZ6qj
Paperback, 2022
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
GatesHenry Louis Gates JrTomorrow, join Eddie S. Glaude (@esglaude) and I as we discuss my new book, The Black Church, a powerful history of the influence of Black culture within the church. Sign up using the link below. #BlackChurchPBS https://t.co/YpbJHpAl6t
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The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
Charles M. BlowHenry Louis Gates JrVery much looking forward to talking with my friend @CharlesMBlow tomorrow (April 8th - 4pm) about his newest book, 'The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto'. Join us and ask some questions! Register: https://t.co/K3PIo2lK0J https://t.co/r59RVfAxZ4
Paperback, 2021
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture
Randall KennedyHenry Louis Gates JrMonday at 4pm ET, I will be in a @HarvardBooks virtual conversation with Randall Kennedy on his magnum opus, 'Say it Loud! On Race, Law, History, and Culture'. I hope you will join us! Register: https://t.co/whnRzMTHA2 https://t.co/Fp5kAAqG7q
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wife of Willesden
Zadie SmithHenry Louis Gates JrAward-winning author Zadie Smith makes her playwriting debut with #TheWifeofWillesden, transforming Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath into a beautiful, bawdy new comedy! See it at @americanrep now thru MAR 17 → https://t.co/J8SjInGejE 🍻
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Bluest Eye
Toni MorrisonHenry Louis Gates JrAmerican novelist Toni Morrison saw her blackness as an expansion of her writing. In The Bluest Eye, the Black reader “feels they are being let in on a secret and being brought into someone’s confidence.” -Dana A. Williams (@DWill5) #MakingBlackAmericaPBS https://t.co/8K9I3OHYfK
Paperback, 2007
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Invisible Man
Ralph EllisonHenry Louis Gates JrSurreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’: https://t.co/iV5fL9Ul3o (via @nytimes)
Paperback, 1995
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book