Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Emerging from a modest West Virginia upbringing, Gates earned a summa cum laude history degree at Yale before becoming the first African American Mellon Fellow, which enabled him to complete an M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature at Cambridge. He began his academic career at Yale’s Afro-American Studies department, later holding faculty positions at Cornell, Duke and, from 1991, Harvard, where he…
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