Or they stayed home, and they listened to or played music. And they stayed home, and they read. Barack Obama. Eric Foner, professor of history at Columbia University, considered Gates's emphasis on there being "little discussion" of African involvement in the slave trade to be unfounded, stating that "today, virtually every history of slavery and every American history textbook includes this information". GATES: You know, I'm totally exposed. 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. It's - remember, it's - my father dragged my brother and me upstairs in his parents' home and made us wait why he'd look through half a dozen of his father's scrapbooks, about which we knew nothing - complete mystery, a secret to us - looking for that obituary. And she would stand up and read their obituary, their eulogy. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. In 2012, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Episode 1409A -- Pictured in this screengrab: Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. During an interview on February 22, 2021 -- GATES: admixture, I'm 50 percent sub-Saharan African and 50 percent European and virtually no Native American ancestry, which really pisses my family off. When we left off, Gates was talking about his own DNA mix. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. Elizabeth had suffered a stroke, her mind irreparably harmed. He maintains that it is "ridiculous" to think that only Blacks should be scholars of African and African-American literature. Or they stayed home, and they drew. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Based on admixture testing, Longoria is told that she is 70 percent European, 27 percent Native American, and 3 percent African. Black people came here - not willingly, of course. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (@henrylouisgates) Instagram photos and videos henrylouisgates Verified Follow 519 posts 129K followers 173 following Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Dir. "Signifyin'" refers to the significance of words that is based on context, and is accessible only to those who share the cultural values of a given speech community. In addition to Rosanne, Vivian and Johnny welcomed three other daughters: Cindy, Kathy and Tara. And the last thing I did before I went to bed on July 2, 1960, was to look up the word estimable. And that is the strongest argument for brotherhood, sisterhood and the unity of the human species. Moreover, these genetic techniques may be inconsistent with the aims of conventional genealogy. At the time, only Vivians European background had been known, and this discovery in her ancestryresurfaced thanks to a profile on Johnnys first wife in The Washington Poston May 16. In 1974, Carol Stacks important ethnography All Our Kin (Harper & Row) suggested the plasticity of the designation cousin well beyond consanguinity. And you don't have a Y DNA, so that's why you're a woman. And I don't think that he understands how much power that - to heal, to bind that the Oval Office metaphorically has. Signifyin is the practice of representing an idea indirectly, through a commentary that is often humourous, boastful, insulting, or provocative. GATES: Well, the average African-American GATES: The average African-American is 24 percent European. In a February episode of the PBS show, "Finding Your Roots," host and historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. presented Rosanne Cash with her DNA results and family genealogy. So everybody knew that this whole thing was building to the climax when Delilah - is her name - the character. GROSS: So you assume it was not a consensual relationship, but she managed to own her own home five years after being freed from slavery. GROSS: OK. So we knew he was Irish. We're all admixed. And when this little girl's passing for - she passes for white and breaks her mother's heart. So I want to read something that you wrote about her. The new season of his TV series "Finding Your Roots" is now showing on PBS. and Ph.D. in English literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge. Gates graduated as valedictorian of his high school class in 1968 and attended a local junior college before enrolling at Yale University, where he received a bachelors degree in history in 1973. Will we reach consilience"William Whewells term for the combining of information from different domains toward the unity of knowledgebetween conventional and genetic genealogy (and, moreover, among the types of genetic analysis at play)? While assignment to the haplogroup L3x, for example, indicates an ancestor in what is now Ethiopia at least 50,000 years ago, this interesting detail does not fill in the contours of the family tree. The confrontation resulted in Gates being arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Season 8. Gates is the host of the TV genealogy series "Finding Your Roots." GATES: Yeah, I loved books. GATES: Oh, my father and I were the first father and son of any race and the first African-Americans fully sequenced. At the age of 14, Gates suffered a hairline fracture of the ball-and-socket joint in his hip while playing touch football. If you continue to experience issues, contact us at 202-466-1032 or help@chronicle.com. But when I started the series, it wasn't called "Finding Your Roots." Gates argued that the pervasiveness and centrality of signifyin in African and African American literature and music means that all such expression is essentially a kind of dialogue with the literature and music of the past. "Black people were so angry at me. GATES: I'll never - I love you, Mama. In 2010, Gates wrote an op-ed in The New York Times that discussed the role played by Africans in the Atlantic slave trade. He loved the news. On the same night Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr . In the years that followed he earned a reputation as a literary archaeologist by recovering and collecting thousands of lost literary works (short stories, poems, reviews, and notices) by African American authors dating from the early 19th to the mid-20th century. DAVIES: Henry Louis Gates speaking with Terry Gross in May of last year. And I have my mother's certificate from this vocational school where she learned to be a seamstress. At one point, Johnny even told the KKK in a statement that Vivian was white. Since 2012, he has hosted a PBS television series, entitled Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr..[24] The second season of the series, featuring 30 prominent guests across 10 episodes, with Gates as the narrator, interviewer, and genealogical investigator, aired on PBS in fall 2014. So (laughter) given the example that President Obama set in calming down that kind of argument in America over you and this officer, what do you hear now coming from our president? And he, and you, the officer and Joe Biden sat down, had a beer or two. They came in slave ships. Because the series is so successful in demonstrating the intersections between world history and personal history, the lack of contextualization here is notable. The minister would call on her. Advertisement Accuracy and availability may vary. In the series, he discussed findings with guests about their complex ancestries. GATES: We know he was Irish from my DNA. (Note: Clotel (1853) by William Wells Brown is recognized as the first novel published by an African-American author, but it was both written and published in London.) So I'm out there. Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. It was astonishing. And she dies of a broken heart because her little girl passes for white and goes off - and never sees her again. "[7], Gates has argued that a separatist, Afrocentric education perpetuates racist stereotypes. GROSS: There's some people who are trying to use genealogy to out people who are white supremacists and say, oh, you think you're so pure white, that that's such a big deal? Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker, who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Rosanne Cash became tearful after learning that her mom, Vivian Liberto Cash, had a Black great-great grandmother who was subjected to a life of slavery. GATES: Yeah, yeah. He reflects on his own history and some of the more controversial aspects of DNA testing. Would you do it? GROSS: But you had family that passed for white. And I sat down. GROSS: Huge story. In 2021, Gates was honored by PEN America with its Audible Literary Service Award. In Wednesday's press conference, President Obama called the Cambridge Police Department "stupid" for arresting Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. You might have breast cancer. Today's most compelling personalities discover the surprising stories in their own family trees. My great-great-grandfather's now been found. Gates has such an eminent reputation", she said, "and so much gravitas. And I was exhilarated. He has insisted that Black literature must be evaluated by the aesthetic criteria of its culture of origin, not criteria imported from Western or European cultural traditions that express a "tone deafness to the Black cultural voice" and result in "intellectual racism". GATES: That was one of the happiest days of my life when my brother went to dental school. They - but you're absolutely right. One of eight children born to Edward St. Lawrence Gates and Helen Gertrude Redman Gates, he was the youngest of seven sons. [8] The first African American to be awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Gates sailed on the Queen Elizabeth 2 for England, where he studied English literature at Clare College, Cambridge and earned his Ph.D. degree. Gates wrote, executive-produced, and hosted the series, which earned the 2013 Peabody Award and a NAACP Image Award. The book tells stories about Gates's parents, his lifelong nickname, Skippy, and his brother, Rocky. And she burst into tears because she used to read me that book all the time. 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. He introduced the notion ofsignifyinto represent Black literary and musical history as a continuing reflection and reinterpretation of what has come before. You know, we used to say tribe, but now that's not politically correct - so the Yoruba ethnic group in Western Nigeria. GATES: They don't do that anymore for this particular kind of - I had a broken hip. TERRY GROSS, BYLINE: Because you've talked to everybody about their genealogy, I want to talk with you about yours and what you've learned about yourself and the larger meaning of what you've learned about yourself. That yearning manifests itself in many ways, from anomie to ethnic mutual-aid associations. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
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