American Book Awards
1回登壇
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第10回（1989年） Winner
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
ヘンリー・ルイ・ゲイツ・ジュニア
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
別名:
Skip
ペンネーム:
Skip (nickname)（Childhood nickname; commonly used in informal and some public contexts.）
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1950-09-16 （Keyser, West Virginia, U.S.）
- 国籍
- United States
- 言語
- English
- 居住地歴
- Piedmont, West Virginia (grew up) → Cambridge, Massachusetts (Harvard University)
経歴
- 職業
- author, documentary filmmaker, essayist, literary critic, professor, historian
- 活動期間
- 1973年〜
- 所属
- Harvard University (Director, Hutchins Center; Alphonse Fletcher University Professor), Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (Trustee)
- 所属団体
- American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Council on Foreign Relations (member), Sons of the American Revolution (member), British Academy (Corresponding Fellow)
- 影響を受けた人物
- W. E. B. Du Bois, African-American vernacular traditions (e.g., Signifyin'), Structuralism / Deconstruction
- 影響を与えた人物
- Contemporary scholars of African-American literature and public intellectuals, Producers and scholars popularizing genealogy-based history TV (e.g., Finding Your Roots)
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Potomac State College of West Virginia University | — | — | — | 1968–1969 | United States |
| Yale University | — | History (B.A.) | B.A. (summa cum laude) | 1969–1973 | United States |
| Clare College, University of Cambridge | — | English literature | M.A., Ph.D. | 1974–1979 | United Kingdom |
Potomac State College of West Virginia University
期間:
1968–1969
国:
United States
Attended for one year before transferring to Yale University.
Yale University
History (B.A.)
学位:
B.A. (summa cum laude)
期間:
1969–1973
卒業年:
1973
国:
United States
Phi Beta Kappa; received Mellon Foundation fellowship and went on to graduate study at Cambridge.
Clare College, University of Cambridge
English literature
学位:
M.A., Ph.D.
期間:
1974–1979
卒業年:
1979
国:
United Kingdom
Studied on a Mellon fellowship; awarded Ph.D. in 1979.
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | MacArthur Fellowship | — | — | MacArthur Foundation | 受賞 |
| 1989 | Anisfield-Wolf Book Award | The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers (editor) | — | Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards | 受賞 |
| 1989 | American Book Award | The Signifying Monkey | — | Before Columbus Foundation | 受賞 |
| 1998 | National Humanities Medal | — | — | National Endowment for the Humanities | 受賞 |
| 2002 | Jefferson Lecture | Mister Jefferson and the Trials of Phillis Wheatley (lecture) | — | National Endowment for the Humanities | 受賞／講演 |
| 2013 | Peabody Award | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (documentary) | — | Peabody Awards | 受賞 |
| 2015 | Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross | — | Columbia University Journalism School | 受賞 |
| 2019 | Chicago Tribune Literary Award | Lifetime achievement | — | Chicago Tribune | 受賞 |
| 2024 | Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement | — | — | American Academy of Arts and Letters | 受賞 |
| 2025 | Vilcek Prize for Excellence in Literary Scholarship | — | — | Vilcek Foundation | 受賞 |
MacArthur Fellowship
1981
主催:
MacArthur Foundation
結果:
受賞
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
1989
対象作品:
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers (editor)
主催:
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
結果:
受賞
American Book Award
1989
対象作品:
The Signifying Monkey
主催:
Before Columbus Foundation
結果:
受賞
National Humanities Medal
1998
主催:
National Endowment for the Humanities
結果:
受賞
Jefferson Lecture
2002
対象作品:
Mister Jefferson and the Trials of Phillis Wheatley (lecture)
主催:
National Endowment for the Humanities
結果:
受賞／講演
Peabody Award
2013
対象作品:
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (documentary)
主催:
Peabody Awards
結果:
受賞
Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award
2015
対象作品:
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
主催:
Columbia University Journalism School
結果:
受賞
Chicago Tribune Literary Award
2019
対象作品:
Lifetime achievement
主催:
Chicago Tribune
結果:
受賞
Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement
2024
主催:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
結果:
受賞
Vilcek Prize for Excellence in Literary Scholarship
2025
主催:
Vilcek Foundation
結果:
受賞
受賞・候補エディション
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第54回（1989年） Winner
作品
代表作
The Signifying Monkey
1988年 Literary criticism / Academic 336ページAnalyzes the tradition of 'signifyin'' in African-American literature, linking vernacular practices to literary theory and proposing an aesthetic grounded in Black cultural practices.
language and culturevernacular traditionsidentity
Colored People: A Memoir
1994年 Memoir / Essays 320ページA memoir recounting Gates's upbringing, family life, and academic development, reflecting on race, education, and identity in America.
family historyrace and educationself-reflection
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
2013年 History / Documentary 256ページA book accompanying Gates's PBS documentary series tracing 500 years of African-American history; Gates wrote, produced, and hosted the series.
historical educationslavery and emancipationcultural legacy
映像化・舞台化
- [Documentary (TV)] The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013)
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
2019年 History 496ページExamines the political and social developments from Reconstruction to Jim Crow, analyzing the rise and impacts of white supremacy in America.
Reconstruction erawhite supremacyinstitutionalized racism
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021年 Religious / Cultural history 288ページExplores the history and cultural role of the Black church in America; accompanies a PBS documentary of the same name.
religious historycommunitycultural formation
全著作
- Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self (1987)
- The Signifying Monkey (1988)
- Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992)
- Colored People: A Memoir (1994)
- Wonders of the African World (1999)
- The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013)
- Stony the Road (2019)
- The Black Church (2021)
- The Black Box: Writing the Race (2024)
翻案
- The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (PBS documentary, 2013)
- Finding Your Roots (PBS genealogy series, 2012– )
作風・主題
- 文体
- Interdisciplinary, theoretical literary criticism (drawing on deconstruction, structuralism, semiotics)Emphasis on vernacular traditionsPopular-documentary narrative style in media work
- 頻出モチーフ
- identity and lineageBlack culture and languagerediscovery and preservation of history
健康
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Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (injury in adolescence)14歳時の負傷から以後Right leg shortened by approximately two inches due to injury; uses a cane for walking.
評価・遺産
A public intellectual influential in both academia and popular media. Contributed to the canonization and preservation of African-American literature and popularized genealogy-based history on television. Recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees; left a broad cultural legacy through documentaries and archival projects.
記念館・博物館
- Fitzwilliam Museum (portrait donation) Cambridge, United Kingdom
関連学会
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- American Philosophical Society
資料所蔵先
- Contributions to the Hutchins Center archives at Harvard University
- Black Periodical Literature Project (digital archive of Black newspapers and magazines)
大衆文化への影響
- Popularized genealogy and history through PBS series (Finding Your Roots, Many Rivers to Cross, etc.)
- Cameo appearances in shows such as The Simpsons and Watchmen
引用
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Every Black American text must confess to a complex ancestry, one high and low (that is, literary and vernacular) but also one white and black ... a thoroughly integrated canon of American literature is not only politically sound, it is intellectually sound as well.
出典: Writings of Henry Louis Gates Jr. (literary criticism) (1991年)
豆知識
- Childhood nickname is "Skip."
- Sustained a hip injury at 14 resulting in a shortened right leg and occasional use of a cane.
- One of the first African Americans to have his genome fully sequenced (2010, Faces of America project).
- Host of PBS's Finding Your Roots, popularizing genealogy for general audiences.