1999-2000 Convocation Series "The Future of Race Relations in America" Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Thursday, February 10, 2000
	Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Return to Main Story		Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, where he also directs the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research. Described as the most notable scholar of African-American studies in the country, he revived Harvard's black-studies department, which, by many accounts, had languished for 20 years. The author of several books, Gates is general editor of the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature, editor and coeditor of many books and special editions of journals, coeditor of Transition magazine, and a staff writer for the New Yorker. He has published essays, reviews, interviews, and profiles in many other magazines, scholarly periodicals, and newspapers. Most recently, Gates helped create Encarta Africana, a multimedia comprehensive history of Africa and its diaspora in the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
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