And they would be published in the newspaper. And you got this from the 1870 census - (reading) that Jane Gates, age 51, female, mulatto, laundress and nurse, owns real estate valued at $1,400; born in Maryland; cannot read or write. [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. On October 23, 2006, Gates was appointed the Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor at Harvard University. At the age of 14, Gates suffered a hairline fracture of the ball-and-socket joint in his hip while playing touch football. GATES: And think about it. Gates also notes that it is equally difficult to decide who should get such reparations and who should pay them, as slavery was legal under the laws of the colonies and the United States. And TV was on kind of like the hearth in New England. Thank God. And the black woman says all she wants is enough money to have a New Orleans-type funeral. All rights reserved. American playwright, actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. GROSS: But you also wanted to know who were your African ancestors. He maintains that it is "ridiculous" to think that only Blacks should be scholars of African and African-American literature. GROSS: It's mind-boggling. 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. Faces expands on those outings in topic and technique, branching out from the genealogies of prominent blacks to those of a multiracial, multiethnic group of notables, including the actors Eva Longoria and Meryl Streep, the writers Louise Erdrich and Malcolm Gladwell, the musician Yo-Yo Ma, the poet and scholar Elizabeth Alexander, the comedian Stephen Colbert, and Gates himself. He is a Trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. GROSS: So I want to squeeze in one more question. You know, I try to - doing "Finding Your Roots" is a way to paying homage to my mother and father every year. 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. 9. Except in the next scene, I showed him their headstones. And I cluster more toward the Yoruba than any - because 50 percent GATES: Of my ancestry is from sub-Saharan Africa. [25][26][27] Finding Your Roots resumed in January 2016.[28]. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. And she invents this pancake mix, and they become fabulously wealthy. Updates? Terry will be one of the guests whose family history is explored next year in the sixth season of the show. When I did Morgan Freeman's family tree, it was obvious through his DNA that he was descended from a white man who was an overseer on a plantation in Mississippi. I think you know where I'm heading here. Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. And they stayed home, and they read. Gatess father, Henry Louis Gates, Sr., worked in a paper mill and moonlighted as a janitor; his mother, Pauline Coleman Gates, cleaned houses. And I don't think that he understands how much power that - to heal, to bind that the Oval Office metaphorically has. Would you do it? 8. And I loved the news. There we go. So what I did - my father and I agreed, for science, that we'd put our genomes in the public domain so that any scholar or student can study our genome. Barack Obama understood that and, I think, certainly helped our nation to heal. However, in the 60s amid the Civil Rights Movement, Vivian had been the target of attention from white supremacists since they believed she looked Black. 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In Wednesday's press conference, President Obama called the Cambridge Police Department "stupid" for arresting Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. "[13] After his 2003 NEH lecture, Gates published in the same year a book entitled The Trials of Phillis Wheatley, about the early African-American poet. 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. 5. As a Black intellectual and public figure, Gates has been an outspoken critic of the Eurocentric literary canon. Discomfort is also experienced by the viewer. Gates's web series, "Black History in Two Minutes (Or So)", which he executive produces with Robert F. Smith and Dyllan McGee, earned five Webby Awards, including for Best Podcast: Documentary and Best Video Series: Education & Discovery (2020), Best Podcast: Documentary and Best Social Video: Discovery & Education (2021) and Best Social Video: Discovery & Education (2022). So we went - my father showed us that picture and that obituary, and we went home. And GATES: Yeah. Following a two-year stay at Duke University, he was recruited to Harvard University in 1991. President Obama's comments on Gates's arrest. GATES: He wasn't even out the door, and I moved into his bedroom. GATES: And then there was "The Late Late Show." As a result of the injury, Gates walks with a cane and his right leg is more than 2 inches shorter than his left. More than anyone else, the historian is responsible for "entertaining the idea remotely" that Gates could become a writer. Gates hosted Faces of America, a four-part series presented by PBS in 2010. "We deconstruct ethnic identities to show that when the lights came down, everyone was sleeping with everyone else -- that's the way human history goes!" . That seems to be one of the programs aspirations. GATES: And I gave it to my mother once. Please make sure your computer, VPN, or network allows Is this instance of intraracial slavery an anomaly? Malcolm Gladwell hears some shocking news in Gates's latest PBS show. GATES: I did an episode with Oprah and Quincy Jones and Bishop T.D. And my father would just make up stories and tell my brother and me. The minister would call on her. He learned the truth when he appeared on an episode of the new PBS series Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker, with his fair skin and blue eyes, had long . 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). Jakes and Chris Tucker. Or they stayed home, and they drew. So that was a steal. As we honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King today, we're going to listen to an interview Terry recorded with historian Henry Louis Gates. You know, no matter how different we appear phenotypically, under the skin we're 99.99 percent the same. 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 my grandfather was so white, we called him Casper behind his back. The recipient of fifty-six honorary degrees and numerous prizes, Professor Gates was a . 4. GROSS: So you know your medical background and if you're GATES: Yeah. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden eventually extended an invitation to Gates and the Cambridge officer who was involved to share a beer with them at the White House, which they accepted. I am descended from - on my father's side - from a white man who impregnated a black woman and, on my mother's side, from a white woman who was impregnated by a black man. In the series, he discussed findings with guests about their complex ancestries. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities in 1991. And I think that that's sad. And I realized only recently that though I was raised to be a doctor, deep down, I really wanted to be a writer. Gates has joined the Sons of the American Revolution. And it's just crazy. Biology matters. 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. Transcript: Q&A with Henry Louis Gates Jr. January 16, 2009 Greg Hicks: Everyone welcome, this is a very special moment for us and we really want this to be just as informal as possible. GROSS: (Laughter) So I want to change the subject a little bit. In 1973, Gates became the first African-American to receive a Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship to study at Cambridge. And there were a lot of people who voted for Donald Trump as a repudiation vote. And they have a horse-drawn carriage. Not all U.S. presidents are missed once they leave the White House. Fifty or a hundred years from now, he explains, my hope for the present generation is that a future Du Bois will look back on our time and say that, in this era of fracture, we drew a line. And I don't know if that ruined your sports career forever, but it affected your leg forever. 2. He received the 2008 Ralph Lowell Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the highest honor in the field of public television. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. [9] Gates accepted the offer by Cornell in 1985 and taught there until 1989. [19], In 1995, Gates presented a program in the BBC series Great Railway Journeys (produced in association with PBS). And then he'd - and I read quite a lot. Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Head Negro In Charge. I mean, like, my - I'm second-generation American. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (@henrylouisgates) Instagram photos and videos henrylouisgates Verified Follow 519 posts 129K followers 173 following Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Dir. Because of the injury, Gates now uses a cane when he walks.[6][7]. GATES: Oh, my father and I were the first father and son of any race and the first African-Americans fully sequenced. He was a free negro, as we would have said then. That's a long time when you're young. Gates has such an eminent reputation", she said, "and so much gravitas. We are unable to fully display the content of this page. GATES: That was one of the happiest days of my life when my brother went to dental school. As host of the PBS series Finding Your Roots, Gates tells celebrities about their family history. And we knew the name of his great-great-grandmother and the name of this white man. And then you see this white girl next to Claudette Colbert. February 12, 2010. Today's most compelling personalities discover the surprising stories in their own family trees. And I was just overwhelmed with emotion. So let's get back to your great-great-grandmother. GATES: And, you know, what's even more amazing, it's - one, it was my mother's third great grandfather - my fourth great grandfather. Reader, a collection of his writings edited by Abby Wolf, was published. Theyve Had an Inappropriate Relationship For Months, How Black Creators Can Expand Their Network with LinkedIn. In 1973 he entered Clare College, Cambridge, where one of his tutors was the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka. GATES: Yeah. And so then they came in - this is a big deal back in 2008. Du Bois Center there at Harvard, one of It was really, like, the photograph of her - of your great-great-aunt Jane Gates. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. about the forthcoming episode of Finding Your Roots which features actor Joe Manganiello discovering he is of African descent. And the title is Race Is A Social Construction, But Mutations Are Real" (ph). We delineate our individual and collective identities based upon inclusion in and exclusion from groups. GATES: But then they did another special test. Or they stayed home, and they listened to or played music. The confrontation resulted in Gates being arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. In 1989, Gates won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for editing the 30 volumes of "The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers". At Yale University in 1973, he was one of 12 students selected as a Scholar of the House, a program that allows seniors to write a book or compose a symphony or follow a similar passion instead of taking classes. A passerby called police, reporting a possible break-in after describing to 911 "an individual" forcing the front door open. And that imprinted this woman's story in my mind. They flew him in from San Francisco. And we have a wall of degrees at home. When my daughters were born, I had them tested for sickle cell because - black people are not the only people in the world that have sickle cell. GATES: Yeah. His work has rooted African-American literary criticism in the African-American vernacular tradition.[12]. After an evening at a bachelorette party, she woke up with what she thought was a hangover. But it is clear, in any case, that we fully inhabit a genealogical society"to use the anthropologist Elizabeth Povinellis phrase. GROSS: Have you been medically DNA tested? The world just isn't like that. What percent would be Native American? The forms of genealogical tracing that star in Faces function doubly: both splitting and lumping. Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He rediscovered the earliest African-American novels . Historical evidence suggests that intraracial slavery was uncommon, and that when it did occur, sometimes free men and women of color purchased enslaved relatives and friends to rescue them from the cruelty of the chattel system, if not the social death of slave status. of Hutchins Center at @harvard. Sgt. American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950), Critical studies and reviews of Gates' work. So overseer, slave plantation - rape, right? 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. African-Americans all think that they're a descendant from a Native American. Gates wrote, executive-produced, and hosted the series, which earned the 2013 Peabody Award and a NAACP Image Award. In 2021, Gates was honored by PEN America with its Audible Literary Service Award. You know, we used to say tribe, but now that's not politically correct - so the Yoruba ethnic group in Western Nigeria. So I'm out there. The fifth season of Gates' TV series "Finding Your Roots" is now running on PBS. GATES: You know, I'm totally exposed. GROSS: Your father died not too long ago - a few years ago. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Gates's prominence led to his being called as a witness on behalf of the controversial Florida rap group 2 Live Crew in an obscenity case. We fought to keep the pipeline of opportunity open, and, despite our ideological differences, we found a way to link arms against every form of bigotry.. Now she was born in 1819; died in 1888. Gates was also involved with various television documentaries that were aired by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). GATES: We know he was Irish from my DNA. And most DNA companies in the United States will tell you that they have never tested an African-American who is 100 percent from sub-Saharan Africa. And when this little girl's passing for - she passes for white and breaks her mother's heart. As I have written elsewhere, this new kinship category, DNA cousins, or what Gates calls autosomal cousins, suggests that flexible kinship is being made on the new (or is it the rather old) terrain of biology. Brub, Michael (Spring 1994). And they got the brothers in uniforms with swords and stuff coming out of the church with this sad, black church music. Gates's critically acclaimed six-part PBS documentary series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, traced 500 years of African-American history to the second inauguration of President Barack Obama. In 1974, Carol Stacks important ethnography All Our Kin (Harper & Row) suggested the plasticity of the designation cousin well beyond consanguinity.
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