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Books by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The Black Box

A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, by one of the nation's major literary critics

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Stony the Road

A profound new 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.

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