Search results for “Henry Louis Gates, Jr.”

The Black Box

By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book

“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions. 1�7  1�7 Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other... Read more

In Search of Our Roots

By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Most African Americans, in tracing their family’s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was a brutally efficient nullifier of identity, willfully denying black men and women even their names. Here, scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., backed by an elite team of geneticists and researchers, takes nineteen extraordinary African... Read more

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro

By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1957, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.’�1�7�1�7 Rogers’s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research, to a people too long starved on the lie that they... Read more

Stony the Road

By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

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.

The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar... Read more

Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. & Tonya Bolden

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War's conclusion, Reconstruction, and the rise of Jim Crow segregation.This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of... Read more

The Black Church

By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African-American experience, a powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community's abiding rock and its fortress.

The companion book to the upcoming PBS series.

For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a... Read more

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper

By: Shirley Moody-Turner & Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Narrated by: Karen Murray, Dominic Hoffman & Shirley Moody-T...

Length: 19 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped pave the way for modern social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name

A Penguin Classic

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper brings together, for the first time, Anna Julia Cooper's major collection... Read more

Finding Oprah's Roots

By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

“Before I have a big meeting or decision to make, 1�7 says Oprah Winfrey, “I go and I sit with the ancestors. Literally, I go and sit in my closet and I say their names. I just say their names so that when I walk into the space, I don’t walk alone. 1�7br>
This audiobook will help millions of African Americans never again to walk alone.
What’s more, it... Read more

The Black Box

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves over the course of the country's history.

Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates Jr's legendary Harvard course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race is the story of Black... Read more