Gates, Henry Louis

A collection of essays presenting arguments that hate speech restrictions are dangerous and counterproductive not only because of the challenge they present to the First Amendment but also because they draw attention and resources away from the real problems of racism and inequality.

A collection of writings by Henry Louis Gates Jr. in which he examines African American arts and culture, Africa and the African Diaspora, and other related topics.

Discusses the period of slavery during which over ten and half million Africans were shipped to the Caribbean and Latin America, examines the history of the African presence in Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru, looks at the cultures that originated from these African ancestors, and considers the presence of anti-black racism in Latin America.

American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr. looks at America's history from 1861 to 1915, focusing on the destruction of slavery, the Reconstruction Amendments, and African-American resilience in times of racial unrest and drawing parallels to them with the early twenty-first century in the United States.

"A powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community's abiding rock and its fortress"--.

American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr. looks at America's history from 1861 to 1915, focusing on the destruction of slavery, the Reconstruction Amendments, and African-American resilience in times of racial unrest and drawing parallels to them with the early twenty-first century in the United States.

"A . . . rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind"--Amazon.