Gates has authored or co-authored 25 books, including “The Signifying Monkey,” a seminal text on African American oral and literary tradition, which won the American Book Award in 1988, and “ Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow,” a New York Times Notable Book of 2019. He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. The award - which is being given for only the seventh time since it was established in 1975 - recognizes remarkable scholars whose work shapes our inner lives and our understanding of the world around us.Ī prolific scholar and public intellectual, Gates’s work exploring and illuminating African American history and culture is incomparable. The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has named Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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