Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
1950–African American scholar and writer who successfully championed the inclusion of black writers in the American literary canon and helped to establish African American studies as an academic discipline by building an outstanding department at Harvard University, where he serves as chairman.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
1950–African American scholar and writer who successfully championed the inclusion of black writers in the American literary canon and helped to establish African American studies as an academic discipline by building an outstanding department at Harvard University, where he serves as chairman.
- Richard Newman
A version of this article originally appeared in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.
