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“... anarchic the controversy is. And how far from being resolved, or even fully articulated. Henry LouisGates, professor of English and chairman of Afro-American Studies at Harvard, has been one of the most articulate commentators on the subject. His first scholarly interest was the recovery and editing of ...”

“... reminder of the Caribbean, of the too-close juxtaposition of slavery and liberté. In 1738, Louis XV was pressed by the merchants of Nantes to limit the number of enslaved people arriving in France and to refute the ‘Free Soil’ principle of Louis X, whose edict of 1315 determined that ‘nul n’est esclave en ...”

“... offered jazz photographs and religious texts, and the memorabilia of black figures from Joe Louis to Malcolm X. There was an autograph letter from Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who published his autobiography in 1845 and became a leading Abolitionist. There were documents that shed light on the intimate workings of the ‘peculiar ...”

“... On 11 November 2001, the New York Times announced a major literary discovery. Henry LouisGates, chairman of the African-American Studies Department at Harvard, had bought at auction the unpublished manuscript of the ‘earliest known novel by a female African-American slave and probably the earliest known novel by a black woman anywhere ...”

“... of the world at large, are obviously at stake, and in their engagements with these, both Henry LouisGates and Patricia Williams offer despatches from various front lines of what have been called the ‘culture wars’. What is at stake is the meaning of the term ‘America’, and ...”

“... satire. Anonymous has been strongly influenced by All the King’s Men (1946). His narrator, Henry Burton, the preppy, intellectual grandson of a black American hero like Martin Luther King, sounds a lot like Warren’s troubled and dislocated Jack Burden. His candidate, Jack Stanton, sounds a lot like Warren’s Willie Stark, ‘a country hick’, in ...”

“... if they were thugs. This suspicion isn’t confined to the black poor, either, as Obama’s friend Henry LouisGates discovered when he was arrested while trying to get into his own house, after a phone call to the police from a white bystander. America has undergone a significant racial transformation since the ...”

“... Despite recent attempts to challenge the idea that the Middle Ages belong to Europe – including Henry LouisGates Jr’s PBS series Africa’s Great Civilisations – the eurocentrism of Civilisation prevails. It wasn’t that Clark didn’t recognise the significance of medieval African artworks: he was instrumental ...”

“... it is right-wing politics. The recent furore over the arrest for ‘disorderly conduct’ of Henry LouisGates helps make this clear. Gates, as one of his Harvard colleagues said, is ‘a famous, wealthy and important black man’, a point ...”

“... the New York Times critic Anatole Broyard, who died in 1990, was unmasked in the New Yorker by Henry LouisGates. In the early 1950s, Broyard had threatened to sue the publishers of a novel by Chandler Brossard, Who Walk in Darkness, which contained a character evidently based on him. It began: ‘People said ...”

“... any lasting damage to scholarship, least of all to the work of serious black scholars such as Henry LouisGates, Paul Gilroy, Manning Marable and Cornel West (to pick names at random). Though a few of the books he describes are undeniably nasty in their anti-semitic and psychosexual bigotry, he also tells us how ...”

“... was my master.’ Ten years later he said his father might have been a mulatto. In other words, as Henry LouisGates put it, Douglass ‘completely diminished the whiteness and the masterness of his father over ten years’. In his 1854 essay ‘The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered’, Douglass stated ...”

“... reborn, especially in the case of scholars from racial minorities (black intellectuals such as Henry LouisGates and Cornel West are not considered in Quick Studies, and post-colonial theorists such as Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak are mostly dismissed). Finally, the PC Battles were indeed lost by the Left, but ...”

“... or Arthur Schlesinger: ‘far from a neoconservative’, he is, rather, a pluralist in the vein of Henry LouisGates, and his reflections on the differences between the terms ‘Israelite’ and ‘Jew’ find an echo in the American opposition between ‘Black’ and ‘African-American’. Suchoff praises ...”

“... lists like ‘Geniuses of Western Music’ written by people who evidently believed Louis Armstrong and Aretha Franklin did not exist. That tradition continues. Dylan Byers knows nothing of your work, and therefore your work must not exist. Here is the machinery of racism – the privilege of being oblivious to questions, of never having to ...”