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Henry Louis Gates

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Henry Louis Gates

Doa

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

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Henry Louis Gates

Kehidupan

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

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Henry Louis Gates

Kehidupan

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

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Henry Louis Gates

Agama

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

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Henry Louis Gates

Keluarga

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

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Henry Louis Gates

Motivasi

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

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