GatesHenry Louis Gates, Jr., is Chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department and W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of The Signifying Monkey, Figures in Black, and Colored People; general editor of The Shomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers; and general editor of The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute series. Read More Read Less