

In addition, Professor Gates is the author of several works of literary criticism, including Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the 'Racial' Self (Oxford University Press, 1987) The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (Oxford, 1988), winner of the 1989 American Book Award and Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (Oxford, 1992). He is the author of Wonders of the African World (1999), the companion book to the six-hour PBS television series of the same name. Anthony Appiah, of the encyclopedia Encarta Africana (1999), published on CD-ROM by Microsoft and in book form by Basic Civitas Books under the title Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.

Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, as well as director of the W.E.B.

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