of Hutchins Center at @harvard. African-Americans all think that they're a descendant from a Native American. And she burst into tears because she used to read me that book all the time. And that is a long time. In addition to producing and hosting previous series on the history and genealogy of prominent American figures, since 2012, Gates has been host of the television series Finding Your Roots on PBS. And I was just overwhelmed with emotion. In 1973 he entered Clare College, Cambridge, where one of his tutors was the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka. He introduced the notion ofsignifyinto represent Black literary and musical history as a continuing reflection and reinterpretation of what has come before. Gates was the host and co-producer of African American Lives (2006) and African American Lives 2 (2008) in which the lineage of more than a dozen notable African Americans was traced using genealogical and historical resources, as well as genealogical DNA testing. Well, I'll tell you a funny story. If you remember, it was called "African-American Lives." Because of the injury, Gates now uses a cane when he walks.[6][7]. GATES: I said, thank God. The womans suffering is assuaged at long last when she revisits the land and people that indelibly shaped her, including a local herbal healer. That's how much the science of genetics has changed in terms of the retail market since 2009. All rights reserved. And I think that that's sad. If you continue to experience issues, contact us at 202-466-1032 or help@chronicle.com. GATES: Very close to them, yeah, particularly to my mother. Since 2012, he has hosted a PBS television series, entitled Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr..[24] The second season of the series, featuring 30 prominent guests across 10 episodes, with Gates as the narrator, interviewer, and genealogical investigator, aired on PBS in fall 2014. And I was in the hospital for six weeks. The fruits of the unearthed family treehistorical coherence; redemptive narratives of migration and assimilation; intergenerational social mobilityare unevenly dispersed. As a literary theorist and critic, Gates has combined literary techniques of deconstruction with native African literary traditions. And you - the last scene is the funeral. Episode 1409A -- Pictured in this screengrab: Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. During an interview on February 22, 2021 -- Over . He's received 50 honorary degrees from such institutions as Harvard University and Williams College. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Elizabeth Gates, the daughter of prominent Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, is in her twenties and suffered a severe stroke just four months ago. This is called an admixture test. In 1989, Gates won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for editing the 30 volumes of "The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers". In 2010, Gates wrote an op-ed in The New York Times that discussed the role played by Africans in the Atlantic slave trade. Video of the day: Drake and 21 Savage's "Spin Bout U" NYC's Extra Butter and Russ & Daughters Join Forces on 50th-Anniversary PUMA Clyde NYC's Extra Butter and Russ & Daughters Join Forces on 50th-Anniversary PUMA ClydeTwo quintessential Lower East Side outposts celebrate the downtown staple sneaker.HypebeastDylan Kelly Culture: Henry She paid cash for that house in what was largely a white neighborhood. GROSS: OK. In 1995, he received the Golden Plate Award of the. And my mother used to write the eulogies, the obituaries for all the black people in the Potomac Valley, where I grew up. Additionally, he has worked to bring about social, educational, and intellectual equality for Black Americans. In 1974, Carol Stacks important ethnography All Our Kin (Harper & Row) suggested the plasticity of the designation cousin well beyond consanguinity. I told them that I did not want to know if I had any of the sort of - I don't know - the slam-dunk genes for Alzheimer's disease. [3], Gates learned through research that his family is descended in part from the Yoruba people of West Africa. And the geneticists have found the identity finally of Jane Gates's paramour, the man GATES: Yes. So I know that moment of transcendence is real.". ", The Letters page of The New York Times of April 25, 2010, featured criticism and examination of Gates's views in response to his op-ed. GATES: And, you know, what's even more amazing, it's - one, it was my mother's third great grandfather - my fourth great grandfather. Except in the next scene, I showed him their headstones. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and professor at Harvard University, the seriess subtitles"The Promise of America, Making America, Becoming American, and Know Thyself"suggest assimilation, a melting pot rather than a tossed salad notion of the United States. In 2021, Gates received the PBS Beacon Award. In July 2022, Gates announced that he would serve as editor-in-chief of the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, a new glossary of language that will contain popular phrases used by historical Black figures and modern-day Black Americans. He was 97, as you said. And I was shocked by that. 8. We're all admixed. GROSS: And it's a way of outing people as not being who they think they are and not recognizing that we're all descended from so many different people. GATES: Right after the Beer Summit, it all went away. He has an estimated net worth of $1million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Whereas prior shows relied heavily on analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome (Y-DNA), yielding results that included at most about 2 percent of ones complete genetic inheritance, in Faces techniques are used that probe deeper into more of the genome. His work has rooted African-American literary criticism in the African-American vernacular tradition.[12]. And I loved the news. Obama then held a much-publicized meeting with Gates and James Crowley, the officer who had arrested Gates, which became informally known as the beer summit because Obama invited the two for beers in the White House Rose Garden. Contemporary Literature. - like the Bible says? And we'd have the chess board set up. Each of the genetic analyses used in Facesadmixture analysis, haplotype grouping, and relative mappingincorporate underlying assumptions and algorithms that may be incompatible with the other techniques. He's also written for Time magazine, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. Alondra Nelson is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University, where she also holds an appointment in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. I'm going to be black. And I sat down. [10] At Harvard, Gates teaches undergraduate and graduate courses as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, an endowed chair he was appointed to in 2006, and as a professor of English. In 1984, Gates was recruited by Cornell University with an offer of tenure; Gates asked Yale whether the university would match Cornell's offer, but they declined. His writing includes pieces in The New York Times that defend rap music and an article in Sports Illustrated that criticizes Black youth culture for glorifying basketball over education. Gates' Daughter Speaks Out CBS 2.04M subscribers Subscribe 53K views 13 years ago Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s arrest continues to cause controversy after President Obama. And she throws herself on the casket. Now you can get a full sequence for less than $5,000 - some people say $1,000 or $2,000. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. GROSS: So I want to squeeze in one more question. And we're listening to Terry's interview with Henry Louis Gates. In October 1975, he was hired by Charles Davis as a secretary in the Afro-American Studies department at Yale. GATES: Well, I think that you should have the right to - you have to ask someone. So reading this - that she's a mulatto; she'd been a slave - the first question that comes to my mind - and I don't know if it was the first question that came to yours - was, was she raped by the man who owned her? GROSS: Yeah. In the face of migration and movement and so-called nontraditional family forms, both conventional and genetic genealogy allow us to freeze for a moment the flux of the modern human experience. "Black people were so angry at me. Henry Louis Gates Jr. was born Sept. 16, 1950, in Keyser, W.Va. His father worked at the local paper mill during the day and as a janitor at a telephone company at night. GROSS: Your father died not too long ago - a few years ago. In the show, notable guests discover their family roots based on genealogical research and DNA results. While Gates has stressed the need for greater recognition of Black literature and Black culture, he does not advocate a "separatist" Black canon. And your father was a tailor, which is why we GATES: And my mother went to Atlantic City. And the black woman says all she wants is enough money to have a New Orleans-type funeral. She is author of the forthcoming Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Politics of Health and Race, and is at work on a book about genetic ancestry tracing and African diaspora culture. They were buried next to each other. [19], In 1995, Gates presented a program in the BBC series Great Railway Journeys (produced in association with PBS). President Barack Obama, a friend of Gates, said that the Cambridge Police Department had acted "stupidly" in the arrest. And I wanted to be from them. Joe Biden launched his presidential bid in April with a bold . But the ancestry is being investigated against the will of the people being outed. And by in traction, I mean on my back with my foot up with weights. But it's just not those two genetic lines. This program examined the genealogy of 12 North Americans of diverse ancestry: Elizabeth Alexander, Mario Batali, Stephen Colbert, Louise Erdrich, Malcolm Gladwell, Eva Longoria, Yo-Yo Ma, Mike Nichols, Queen Noor of Jordan, Mehmet Oz, Meryl Streep, and Kristi Yamaguchi. Rather, he works for greater recognition of Black works and their integration into a larger, pluralistic canon. It was just put on the historic GATES: Register in Maryland. Even if you were free and you were black GATES: In most states, you weren't allowed to vote. What do you think of that? In 2009, when I did "Faces Of America," a retail value of full genomic sequencing was $300,000. My mother was a seamstress, as you know. The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, African American who fought in the Revolutionary War, Alfred I. duPontColumbia University Award, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, The National Institute of Social Sciences, Who's Black and Why: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race. In some states - like, New York would let them vote sometimes, and then take it away. On other occasions, though it was rare, blacks did enslave other blacks for their labor. He notably explored genealogy as host of the series African American Lives (200608), Faces of America (2010), and Finding Your Roots (2012 ). And the DNA tests we were doing at that time - when they analyzed my Y DNA, it went to Ireland. In Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992) and elsewhere, Gates argued for the inclusion of African American literature in the Western canon. August 22, 2013, 12:00 a.m. But on the other hand, Terry, there were a lot of people who never forgave the country for electing a black man to the White House. )supply information about human population groups dating as far back as 150,000 years, the time horizon of admixture testing is the past 500 years. Gates wrote a book about Jay Rockefeller's campaign to be governor of West Virginia. Professor Gates is the host of the documentary " Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. By Alondra Nelson. GATES: For which she paid cash. Gates serves as the chair for the Selection Committee for the Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship Program that is sponsored by the Fletcher Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Fletcher Asset Management. I killed my mama. And it's for my father. 7. [citation needed] Gates has been criticized by John Henrik Clarke, Molefi Kete Asante, and the controversial Maulana Karenga, each of whom has been questioned by others in academia.[15][16][17]. In Wednesday's press conference, President Obama called the Cambridge Police Department "stupid" for arresting Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. More than anyone else, the historian is responsible for "entertaining the idea remotely" that Gates could become a writer. 22,158 talking about this. summa cum laude in history from Yale University and his M.A. While at Yale, Gates mentored Jodie Foster, who majored in African-American Literature there and wrote her thesis on author Toni Morrison. Mama - I'm sorry, Mama. Once javascript and access to those URLs are allowed, please refresh this page. The show's third season was postponed after it was discovered that actor Ben Affleck had persuaded Gates to omit information about his slave-owning ancestors. [11] Additionally, he is the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. They - but you're absolutely right. This kind of research has been especially important for African-Americans whose ancestors had their names and families taken away when they were enslaved. Then he'd come back. Later, he acquired and authenticated the manuscript of The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts, a novel from the same period that scholars believe may have been written as early as 1853. In an article for Newsweek, journalist Lisa Miller reported on the reaction to Gates' article: The enemy of individuality is groupthink, Gates says, and here he holds everyone accountable. After receiving a doctoral degree in English language and literature in 1979, Gates taught literature and African American studies at Yale University, Cornell University, Duke University, and Harvard University, where he was appointed W.E.B. It's the damnedest thing I ever heard. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. [5], At the age of 14, Gates was injured playing touch football, fracturing the ball and socket joint of his right hip, resulting in a slipped capital femoral epiphysis. This trip came 25 years after Gates worked at a hospital in Kilimatinde, near Dodoma, Tanzania, when he was a 19-year-old pre-medical student at Yale University. Gates hosted Faces of America, a four-part series presented by PBS in 2010. The series is the latest iteration of Gatess innovative, fascinating foray into the nexus of genealogy and genetic ancestry testing that began four years ago with African American Lives (and continued with African American Lives 2 and Oprahs Roots). Amid discussion of Malcolm Gladwells roots, Gates discloses that the best-selling authors Jamaican maternal ancestor, a free woman of color, owned slaves of African descent. This is FRESH AIR. GATES: Well, I was on "The View." They lived together. In 2020, Gates was honored with the Louis Stokes Community VisionaryAward. Gatess father, Henry Louis Gates, Sr., worked in a paper mill and moonlighted as a janitor; his mother, Pauline Coleman Gates, cleaned houses. Would you do it? President Obama's comments on Gates's arrest. In some instances, we are left wanting to know much more. GATES: Oh, my father and I were the first father and son of any race and the first African-Americans fully sequenced. For example, while haplogroupssets of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which are gene-sequence variants that are inherited together and categorized by letter and number (A, L3D, R, U5b, etc. As a literary historian committed to the preservation and study of historical texts, Gates has been integral to the Black Periodical Literature Project, a digital archive of Black newspapers and magazines created with financial assistance from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). James . That belief is shared by Native groups that similarly objected to the Human Genome Diversity Project, as described in the work of Jenny Reardon and Kimberly TallBear. On October 23, 2006, Gates was appointed the Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor at Harvard University. The most likely cause of this is a content blocker on your computer or network. So I'm out there. In "Root Worker," a short . Coming up, journalist Brian Palmer talks about how slavery and the Civil War are described at Confederate historic sites in the South. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker, who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. And I don't think that he understands how much power that - to heal, to bind that the Oval Office metaphorically has. Henry Louis Gates Jr. was born Sept. 16, 1950, in Keyser, W.Va. His father worked at the local paper mill during the day and as a janitor at a telephone company at night. And I have my mother's certificate from this vocational school where she learned to be a seamstress. African-American - I love to joke about this. And I couldn't imagine what, but two sets of those fourth great-grandparents are from my mother's line. As a child, Gates said he wanted to be a Rhodes Scholar. GATES: Yeah. [36], In 1974, Gates learned the Transcendental Meditation technique. As editor-in-chief of the online magazine the Root, Gates has a background in journalism. But I saw that photograph and read her obituary on the day that we buried my father's father, Edward St. Lawrence Gates. In Root Worker, a short story by Edward P. Jones, a chronically ill African-American woman who migrated to Washington, D.C., from North Carolina returns to the South with her husband and daughter, a physician, in search of the cure that has eluded her for decades in the North. Elizabeth had suffered a stroke, her mind irreparably harmed. GROSS: Thank you for all of all of the things you've written for your TV shows, for your movies. Barack Obama. GROSS: Terry Gross interviewed Henry Louis Gates last May when he was in Philadelphia to accept the WHYY Lifelong Learning Award. The recipient of fifty-six honorary degrees and numerous prizes, Professor Gates was a . (January 21, 2015), Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Potomac State College of West Virginia University. Jr. (Design School Visiting Committee 1984-89) in honor of their daughters, Brooke Higgins Bing Williams, Harvard College 1988, and Eden Branford Bing Williams, Harvard . He also learned that one of his African ancestors includes a Yoruba man who was trafficked to America from Ouidah in present-day Republic of Benin. They had two geneticists. So then I became close to them but in two completely different ways. Gates wrote, executive-produced, and hosted the series, which earned the 2013 Peabody Award and a NAACP Image Award. In 2020, Gates was named a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow by Harvard University. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. 6. DNA-derived genealogical information may also collide with other ways of rendering kinship and relation. He wrote his first column (about Little League games) at age 12 for the Piedmont Herald in West Virginia and continued to write for his high school and college newspapers. Read about President Obama's comments on Gates's arrest.

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