Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

male, 59 years old
George Polk Award recipient, Harvard University, American, piedmont, African-American studies scholar, West Virginia writer…African American Studies, African Studies, african, African American
Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at...
Molefi Kete Asante

Molefi Kete Asante

male, 67 years old (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States)
Temple University faculty, professor, M.K. Asante Jr., Afrocentricity, African American Studies, African-American studies scholar…American, African American, Ph.D. Program in African American Studies
Molefi Kete Asante is a professor of African American studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to being a teacher...
Patricia Hill Collins

Patricia Hill Collins

female, 61 years old
African American, African-American studies scholar, University of Maryland, College Park faculty, University of Maryland, College Park, American, university of cincinnati…African American Studies
‘Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park and former head of the De...
Gerald Early

Gerald Early

male, 57 years old
Washington University, Critic, prose, Washington University faculty, Washington University in St. Louis, English…African American culture, African-American studies scholar, American culture, African American Studies, African Studies
Gerald Early (b. 1952) is an essayist and American culture critic. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he is currently a professor of English,...
Hazel Carby

Hazel Carby

female
Yale University, Race Men, Hazel V. Carby, Cultures in Babylon, Reconstructing Womanhood, African American Studies…African-American studies scholar, American Studies, African American
Hazel V. Carby is professor of African American Studies and of American Studies at Yale University. She is a marxist feminist. Her work deals...

Melville J. Herskovits

male, deceased (1963)
Franklin Frazier, Northwestern University faculty, academia, Cold War, World War II, african…American, African American Studies, African Studies
Melville Jean Herskovits (September 10, 1895 - February 25, 1963) was a U.S. anthropologist born in Bellefontaine, Ohio who firmly established...

Claudia Tate

female
Harvard University, ph.d, African American Studies, English studies, English, lung cancer
Claudia Tate (1947-2002) was a noted literary critic and professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University. She is credited...

Nathan Hare

male, 76 years old
African American culture, ethnic studies, African American Studies, black studies
Nathan Hare (April 9, 1933) was the first person hired to coordinate a black studies program in the United States, at San Francisco State in 1968.
Elvis Mitchell

Elvis Mitchell

male, 51 years old
Stream of consciousness writing, HBO, Entourage, fort worth star-telegram, New York Times, film critic…African American Studies, American, African-American
Elvis Mitchell (born 1958 in Detroit, Michigan) is an African-American public intellectual and a former film critic for "The New York Times"....