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Henry Louis Gates has written 111 work(s)

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Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today's Youth For Tomorrow's World

Product Description: The call-to-arms to “leave no child behind” in America has become popularly associated with the Bush administration’s education plan—a plan that actually diverges greatly from the ideals of the Children’s Defense Fund, which originated the concept...read more

By James P. Comer and Henry Louis Gates (foreword by)

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9780300103915 | Yale Univ Pr, August 1, 2004, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: The founder of the School Development Program at the Yale Child Study Center argues for a change of focus in educational reform programs away from an emphasis on test scores to an approach stressing community involvement, emotional growth, social skills,ethical development, and a child's relationship with his caretakers.

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9780300109672 | Yale Univ Pr, August 30, 2005, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The call-to-arms to “leave no child behind” in America has become popularly associated with the Bush administration’s education plan—a plan that actually diverges greatly from the ideals of the Children’s Defense Fund, which originated the concept.

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience

Product Description: Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999...read more

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9780195170559 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 7, 2005), cover price $575.00 | About this edition: Ninety years after W.

Africana: Arts And Letters

Product Description: Here’s an eminently readable reference of African-American contributions to the arts, faithfully adapted from the original one-volume encyclopedia Africana. Essays on such influential black figures as the writer and activist Amiri Baraka; singers Billie Holiday, Paul Robeson, and Lena Horne; painter Romare Bearden; filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, and poet Maya Angelou, as well as on black cultural events throughout modern history, create a rich resource of African-American arts and letters...read more

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9780762420421 | Running Pr Book Pub, January 2, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Here’s an eminently readable reference of African-American contributions to the arts, faithfully adapted from the original one-volume encyclopedia Africana.

Africana: Civil Rights; An A-to-Z Reference of the Movement that Changed America

Provides alphabetically arranged entries on people and events important to the civil rights struggle.

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9780762419586 | Running Pr Book Pub, January 2, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Provides alphabetically arranged entries on people and events important to the civil rights struggle.

The Norton Anthology Of African American Literature

By Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9789990060904 | 2 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, December 30, 2004), cover price $0.02

Slave Uprisings and Runaways: Fighting for Freedom and the Underground Railroad

Chronicles the efforts of the abolitionists to free the slaves, the uprisings by slaves themselves, and the workings of the Underground Railroad.

By Ann E. Eskridge and Henry Louis Gates (foreword by)

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9780766021549 | Enslow Pub Inc, December 1, 2004, cover price $26.60 | About this edition: Chronicles the efforts of the abolitionists to free the slaves, the uprisings by slaves themselves, and the workings of the Underground Railroad.

In Search Of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays On The Bondwoman's Narrative

A collection of essays by noted authorities on African-American history critically analyzes The Bondwoman's Narrative, a first novel written by a female African-American slave, that was published in 2002, assessing the influence of the work on our view of slavery, African-American history, and antebellum literature. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

By Henry Louis Gates and Hollis Robbins

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9780465027088 | Reprint edition (Basic Civitas Books, November 30, 2004), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays by noted authorities on African-American history critically analyzes The Bondwoman's Narrative, a first novel written by a female African-American slave, that was published in 2002, assessing the influence of the work on our view of slavery, African-American history, and antebellum literature.

African-American Studies Core List of Resources

Product Description: The African-American Studies Core List is an annotated checklist of scholarly books providing a "snapshot" of the resources used in the instruction of the "black experience in the Americas" during a given academic year. The Core List is for use by academic department administrators, researchers, publishers of Africana materials as well as librarians selecting materials for instruction and research in the field of African-American studies...read more

By M. Elaine Hughes, Anne Page Mosby and Akilah Shukura Nosakhere

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9781932846010 | Blackburn Pr, December 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The African-American Studies Core List is an annotated checklist of scholarly books providing a "snapshot" of the resources used in the instruction of the "black experience in the Americas" during a given academic year.

Transition 97: Comics

By Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates

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9781932360639 | Soft Skull Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $15.00

Voices from Slavery's Past: Yearning to Be Heard

Draws on writings by slaves, abolitionists, slave traders, and slave owners to present eight viewpoints of slavery and its impact.

By Suzanne Cloud Tapper and Henry Louis Gates (foreword by)

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9780766021570 | Enslow Pub Inc, October 1, 2004, cover price $26.60 | About this edition: Draws on writings by slaves, abolitionists, slave traders, and slave owners to present eight viewpoints of slavery and its impact.

Educating America: How Ralph W. Tyler Taught America to Teach

Product Description: In his preface to this work, Henry Louis Gates Jr. writes, "If you want insight into what's right and what's wrong about the current debate over standards, you'd be well advised to start with the redoubtable Ralph Tyler." Finder's work is the first to chart the career of the man who developed the nation's report card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress...read more

By Morris Finder and Henry Louis Gates (foreword by)

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9780275981976 | Praeger Pub Text, August 30, 2004, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In his preface to this work, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Third World of Theory

One of America's leading scholars discusses a wide range of topics related to cultural and African-American theory--including ethnic identiy, politics, diaspora, and politics--guiding the reader through cultural wars and the author's personal experiences and concluding with an appeal for multiculturalism in which differences are accepted and celebrated.

By Homi Bhabha (introduced by) and Henry Louis Gates

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9780198123842 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: One of America's leading scholars discusses a wide range of topics related to cultural and African-American theory--including ethnic identiy, politics, diaspora, and politics--guiding the reader through cultural wars and the author's personal experiences and concluding with an appeal for multiculturalism in which differences are accepted and celebrated.

Transition 97/98

Product Description: Transition 97/98 continues the magazine's tradition of covering controversial topics in this issue devoted entirely to South Africa. Editors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and K. Anthony Appiah have assembled a heady mix of cultural commentary and provocative reportage on this complex country after apartheid...read more

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9781932360394 | Soft Skull Pr, July 1, 2004, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Transition 97/98 continues the magazine's tradition of covering controversial topics in this issue devoted entirely to South Africa.

Slave Life on the Plantation: Prisons Beneath the Sun

Describes how slavery changed over the centuries, the effects of the rise of the cotton industry, the treatment of slaves, the lives they made for themselves, and the coming of emancipation.

By Henry Louis Gates (foreword by) and Richard Worth

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9780766021525 | Enslow Pub Inc, June 22, 2004, cover price $26.60 | About this edition: Describes how slavery changed over the centuries, the effects of the rise of the cotton industry, the treatment of slaves, the lives they made for themselves, and the coming of emancipation.

Transition 95

Product Description: While other magazines routinely send journalists around the world, Transition, the leading international journal of the Black Diaspora, invites the world to write back. Its far-flung writers fill the magazine's pages with unusual dispatches, unforgettable memoirs, unorthodox polemics, unlikely conversations, and unsurpassed original fiction...read more

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)

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9781932360219 | Soft Skull Pr, May 24, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: While other magazines routinely send journalists around the world, Transition, the leading international journal of the Black Diaspora, invites the world to write back.

The Rise and Fall of American Slavery: Freedom Denied, Freedom Gained

Surveys the origins of American slavery, the development of a slave system and resistance to slavery, the effects of the Revolution and the cotton trade, organized Abolitionism, and the coming of emancipation.

By Henry Louis Gates (foreword by) and Tim McNeese

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9780766021563 | Enslow Pub Inc, May 1, 2004, cover price $26.60 | About this edition: Surveys the origins of American slavery, the development of a slave system and resistance to slavery, the effects of the Revolution and the cotton trade, organized Abolitionism, and the coming of emancipation.

Abolitionists and Slave Resistance: Breaking the Chains of Slavery

Describes the various forms of resistance to slavery, including rebellion, sabotage, the rise of the abolitionist movement, fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad, and the role of former slaves in the Union Army.

By Judith Edwards and Henry Louis Gates (foreword by)

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9780766021556 | Enslow Pub Inc, May 1, 2004, cover price $26.60 | About this edition: Describes the various forms of resistance to slavery, including rebellion, sabotage, the rise of the abolitionist movement, fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad, and the role of former slaves in the Union Army.

African American Lives

A definitive biographical resource provides up-to-date, authoritative portraits of some six hundred noteworthy African Americans representing a wide variety of fields of endeavor, including slaves and abolitionists, writers, politicians, artists, business leaders, musicians, performers, athletes, journalists, and other historical figures.

By Henry Louis Gates (editor) and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (editor)

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9780195160246 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 29, 2004, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Features portraits of some six hundred noteworthy African Americans representing a wide variety of fields of endeavor.

In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays in the Bondwoman's Narrative

A collection of essays by noted authorities on African-American history critically analyze The Bondwoman's Narrative, a first novel written by a female African-American slave, that was published in 2002, assessing the influence of the work on our view of slavery, African-American history, and antebellum literature. 30,000 first printing.

By Henry Louis Gates (editor) and Hollis Robbins (editor)

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9780465027149 | Basic Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Essays offer a critical analysis of 'The Bondwoman's Narrative,' a first novel written by a female African-American slave, assessing the influence of the work on our view of slavery, African-American history, and antebellum literature.

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience : The Concise Desk Reference

A guide to the history and current state of Africa and African American heritage includes entries on topics ranging from affirmative action to zydeco.

By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates

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9780762416424 | Running Pr Book Pub, November 26, 2003, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A guide to the history and current state of Africa and African American heritage includes entries on topics ranging from affirmative action to zydeco.

Li'L Dan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story

Accompanied by a CD read by Maya Angelou, a powerful picture book, written by a legendary American artist, details the story of a young slave who teaches himself to play the drum and saves the Union soldiers from attack--an act of courage that earns him a place in the Army Drum Corps.

By Maya Angelou (narrator), Romare Bearden and Henry Louis Gates (foreword by)

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9780689862373 | Simon & Schuster, August 1, 2003, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: When a company of black Union soldiers tells L'il Dan that he is no longer a slave, he follows them, and uses his beloved drum to save them from attack.

The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers

Traces the pivotal roles that Wheatley and Jefferson played in the shaping of African-American literary tradition, discussing Wheatley's rise to one of America's most famous black women, her subsequent vilification, Jefferson's discriminating opinions about the creative capabilities of slaves, and his disputed role as the father of the black freedom struggle.

By Henry Louis Gates

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9780465027293 | Basic Civitas Books, April 14, 2003, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Traces the roles that Wheatley and Jefferson played in the shaping of African-American literary tradition, discussing Wheatley's rise to fame and Jefferson's disputed role as the father of the black freedom struggle.

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

A highly personal history of slavery delves deeply into the personal histories of slaves for firsthand accounts of this terrible institution, in a collection of period reminiscences of the back-breaking labor, abuse, family life, slave auctions, and emancipation. (view table of contents)

By Spencer Crew (introduced by), Henry Louis Gates (foreword by) and Cynthia Goodman (introduced by)

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9780821228425 | Bulfinch Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents more than 40 selections from interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration that highlight different aspects of slave life, including work, abuse, living conditions, and emancipation.

Africana 2003 Calendar

Product Description: Based on the encyclopedia of the African-American experience by Harvard professors Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this calendar is a testament to the remarkable legacy of Africa and the African Diaspora. Packed with photographs, maps, and other ephemera, the calendar offers a year's worth of fascinating historical information, celebrating the rich history of African-American literature, music, art, and culture...read more

By Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates

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9780789307033 | Egmt edition (Universe Pub, September 1, 2002), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Based on the encyclopedia of the African-American experience by Harvard professors Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country

Product Description: Black Americans are at the heart of the greatest achievements of our history, from music to law, from politics to sports, from literature to religion. Now the two leading African-American intellectuals of our day show us why the twentieth century was "The African-American Century," with one hundred original profiles of the most influential African Americans from W...read more

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9780606242400, titled "African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country" | Demco Media, September 1, 2002, cover price $24.96 | About this edition: Black Americans are at the heart of the greatest achievements of our history, from music to law, from politics to sports, from literature to religion.

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