Henry Louis Gates Jr.Thinkers

The Blackness of blackness is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

A Blackness of the tongue is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

The Civil rights movement is responsible for, as one of its ironic outcomes, the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

Homo rhetoricus africanus is the black speaker who can signify in two discursive universes at once.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'it is wrong for black people to be anti-semitic,' or 'it is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of african descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor.'.

Poverty's cause is structural but also behavioral, requiring a moral revolution within the african American community.

Race is not a thing and category already there.

Racism's roots have always been economic, leading people to scapegoat other people when they are desperate and scared.

Racism's roots have always been economic. When a people is desperate and scared they scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies.

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