Since 2012 he has hosted a PBS TV series, called Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Watch her exclusive interview: First published on September 2, 2010 / 10:43 AM. It is rooted in African-American literary criticism in the African-American vernacular tradition. Her recovery continues to amaze her doctors and family. The trip had the most impact on the children, according to Adams. The show is one episode of a seven-part BBC series titled "Great Railway Journeys," where other narrators ride trains through different parts of the world. Gates was an Anisfield-Wolf prize winner in 1989 for The Schomburg Library of Women Writers. Rather, he works for greater recognition of black works and their integration into a larger, pluralistic canon. Theyre not racist, I know them. Prabook is a registered trademark of World Biographical Encyclopedia, Inc. I have very close friends who voted for Donald Trump and they think the economy is going to be better and America is going to be stronger. After his 2003 NEH lecture, Gates published his 2003 book, The Trials of Phillis Wheatley.In 1995 Gates presented a program in the BBC series Great Railway Journeys (produced in association with PBS). He draws on structuralism, post-structuralism, and semiotics to analyze texts and assess matters of identity politics. Recently, he has enraged many of his colleagues in the African-American studies fieldespecially those campaigning for government reparations for slaveryby insistently reminding them, as he did in a New York Times op-ed last year, that the folks who captured and sold Blacks into slavery in the first place were also Africans, working for profit. src="" alt="" class="gallery-slider__content__img" height="", data-src="/web/show-photo.jpg?id=2525078&cache=false" "It's like a skyscraper coming at you," Gates said. In 2021, Gates became the seventh recipient of the, In 2021, Gates received the prestigious Gold Medal from. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1981 and was listed in TIME (magazine among its 25 Most Influential Americans in 1997. https://www.amazon.com/Classic-Slave-Narratives-Henry-Louis/dp/0451532139/?tag=2022091-20, (Henry Louis Gates, Jr. gives us a corrective yet loving h). As a black intellectual and public figure, Gates has been an outspoken critic of the Eurocentric literary canon. Mother: Pauline Augusta (Coleman) MadameNoire In 2020, Gates was named a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow by Harvard University. Who was the first black American woman to be a self-made millionaire? WebGATES, Henry Louis, Jr. 1950-. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on his new series The Black Church - PBS "My mom was a genius and got me the (language learning software) English Rosetta Stone," Elizabeth said. As a Black intellectual and public figure, Gates has been an outspoken critic of the Eurocentric literary canon. Elizabeth Gates, joined by CBS News Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton shared her remarkable story of recovery with "Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith. It was astonishing. Some critics suggest that adding black literature will diminish the value of the Western canon, while separatists say that Gates is too accommodating to the dominant white culture in his advocacy of integration of the canon. https://www.amazon.com/A-More-Perfect-Union-1968-2013/dp/B00G9U4DDA/?tag=2022091-20. Gates graduated as valedictorian of his Piedmont High School class in 1968 and initially enrolled at Potomac State College of West Virginia University, transferred as an undergraduate to Yale College. WGBH will air some of the footage from the family train trip tonight at 9 p.m. Given Gates commitment to elevating the works and identities of black Americans, some may be surprised to find out that in 1973 he married a white woman named Sharon Lynn Adams. I tried to say, 'What the hell is going on? The confrontation resulted in Gates being arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. After his 2003 NEH lecture, Gates published his 2003 book, The Trials of Phillis Wheatley. Gates moved to Cornell in 1985, where he taught until 1989. Henry Louis Gates WebHenry Louis Gates, Jr. is an American treasure. Sharon Lynn Adams, Henry Louis Gates' Ex-wife - Dicy Trends Unfortunately, his campaign rhetoric leant itself to xenophobic, anti-immigration, isolationist attitudes by addressing peoples fears. On trips to the hospital, Elizabeth's mother pointed out everything from stop signs to streetlamps. He received the 2008 Ralph Lowell Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the highest honor in the field of public television.