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W. E. B. Du Bois
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Stony the Road: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., on Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow

 April 9, 2019
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LOA Harlem Renaissance eBooks continue with the poet dubbed “the Black Keats”

 August 29, 2018
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Brooks D. Simpson: Faithfulness to the historical record places race at the center of Reconstruction

 February 23, 2018
Influences

Viet Thanh Nguyen: We still live in Ralph Ellison’s moment

 June 15, 2015
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Turning high fashion into politics: Henry Louis Gates Jr. on W.E.B. Du Bois and the New Negro movement of 1900

 December 26, 2011
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Library of America interviews Rafia Zafar about the Harlem Renaissance

 August 26, 2011
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