This is FRESH AIR. I have the Ui Neil Haplotype. Sign up to receive the latest updates from U.S News & World Report and our trusted partners and sponsors. And when I was a young teenager, early adolescence, my father and I connected through the news. And I think that we throw terms like that around too loosely. Hollywood Life, Latest Hollywood Celebrity & Entertainment News. We might think of Faces of America, then, as an allegory of the simultaneous diversity of our experiences and the deep interpenetration of our histories. Before the PBS episode, the world only knew that Vivian was reported to be of Sicilian heritage on her dads side, and German/Irish on her mothers side. If you remember, it was called "African-American Lives." And I think that that's sad. In October 1975, he was hired by Charles Davis as a secretary in the Afro-American Studies department at Yale. Also, journalist Brian Palmer talks about how slavery and the Civil War are described at Confederate historic sites in the South. And then you see this white girl next to Claudette Colbert. So I'm telling this story over and over of my - of rediscovering my own lost roots. That's a long time when you're young. Like Joe Louis's fights, which my father still talks about as part of the fixed repertoire of stories that texture our lives. And I would watch this beautiful, brilliant goddess. Episode 1409A -- Pictured in this screengrab: Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. During an interview on February 22, 2021 -- He grew up in neighboring Piedmont. You know, and your family was, one of them anyways, was in the Revolutionary War. (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.) Ostensibly one familys illness narrative, the story is also an allegory about how the experience of migrationwhether forced through slavery, pogroms, or economic vulnerability, or motivated by hope for a better futuremay generate a latent or conscious yen for community. Over . [35] As of 2021, Gates is married to historian Dr. Marial Iglesias Utset. But I think that Donald Trump's rhetoric and some of his actions - for instance, after Charlottesville - encourage unfavorable race relations in the United States. And at the time, the airwaves were so segregated, they only put black films on "The Late Late Show." Clarke, Breena, and Susan Tifft, "A 'Race Man' Argues for a Broader Curriculum: Henry Louis Gates Jr. Of course not. That belief is shared by Native groups that similarly objected to the Human Genome Diversity Project, as described in the work of Jenny Reardon and Kimberly TallBear. They had two geneticists. Armstrong Williams, a person I really admire and like, I ask him, and he said absolutely not. I mean, they know Donald Trump. GROSS: OK, for two weeks. I only did black people. 266. Vivian filed for divorce in 1967, and Johnny went on to marry singer June Carter Cash. Yeah. In some instances, we are left wanting to know much more. Advertisement Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Was this an equal sexual relationship? Gates has joined the Sons of the American Revolution. But on the other hand, Terry, there were a lot of people who never forgave the country for electing a black man to the White House. And you got this from the 1870 census - (reading) that Jane Gates, age 51, female, mulatto, laundress and nurse, owns real estate valued at $1,400; born in Maryland; cannot read or write. or subscribe. Terry. And I gave it to her for birthday. Once javascript and access to those URLs are allowed, please refresh this page. Surely, most people of African descent do not expect to find a black slave owner in their family tree. ". Terry will be one of the guests whose family history is explored next year in the sixth season of the show. Gates's web series, "Black History in Two Minutes (Or So)", which he executive produces with Robert F. Smith and Dyllan McGee, earned five Webby Awards, including for Best Podcast: Documentary and Best Video Series: Education & Discovery (2020), Best Podcast: Documentary and Best Social Video: Discovery & Education (2021) and Best Social Video: Discovery & Education (2022). Gates hosted Faces of America, a four-part series presented by PBS in 2010. [23] He had known of some European ancestry, but was surprised to learn the high proportion; he also learned that he was descended from John Redman, a mulatto veteran in New England of the American Revolutionary War. The show makes use of gene-sequencing techniques that have become widely available since African American Lives first aired, like whole-genome sequencing, which entails the mapping of all six billion base pairs in a persons DNA. And she come to - it's the woman who invents box pancake mix - right? GATES: They don't do that anymore for this particular kind of - I had a broken hip. 6. Well, I'll tell you a funny story. The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song was published in 2021. And by in traction, I mean on my back with my foot up with weights. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross. The furor over the recent arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. erupted again Thursday following sharp criticism of the Cambridge Police Department by President Obama. And I make it every week over and over with "Finding Your Roots.". DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. Copyright 2019 NPR. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. So reading this - that she's a mulatto; she'd been a slave - the first question that comes to my mind - and I don't know if it was the first question that came to yours - was, was she raped by the man who owned her? GATES: So obviously somebody gave her that money. GATES: And they said, OK, we won't tell you. The most likely cause of this is a content blocker on your computer or network. And my brother went off to dental school. If you continue to experience issues, contact us at 202-466-1032 or help@chronicle.com. Omissions? GROSS: Is that too personal? And I was just overwhelmed with emotion. GATES: I did an episode with Oprah and Quincy Jones and Bishop T.D. And when my grandparents came as immigrants, my family was able to assimilate pretty easily because we're white. GROSS: Yeah. A collection of moments during and after Barack Obama's presidency. Obama then held a much-publicized meeting with Gates and James Crowley, the officer who had arrested Gates, which became informally known as the beer summit because Obama invited the two for beers in the White House Rose Garden. Coproduced, hosted, and written by Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the W.E.B. I could've won the Nobel Prize, and somebody would say congratulations. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities in 1991. GROSS: Thank you for all of all of the things you've written for your TV shows, for your movies. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. You were 9 years old when you found her picture. So where does that come from? I killed my mama. And that night - and then daddy showed my brother and me, Dr. Paul Gates now, chief of dentistry at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital GATES: Well, it's the spirit of my mother. Yet genealogy is, at the same time, put to the task of heightening awareness of human relatedness, be it experiential or biological. So you found out that your ancestors were, like, 18 miles away from where you lived. A white doctor misdiagnosed the injury as psychosomatic after Gates told him he wanted to become a doctor, Gates wrote in a New York Times article, "About Men: A Giant Step," in 1990. Biology matters. GATES: Well, I was on "The View." The book tells stories about Gates's parents, his lifelong nickname, Skippy, and his brother, Rocky. The world just isn't like that. Transcript: Q&A with Henry Louis Gates Jr. January 16, 2009 Greg Hicks: Everyone welcome, this is a very special moment for us and we really want this to be just as informal as possible. Even the Native Americans came from someplace else about 16,000 years ago. And the geneticists have found the identity finally of Jane Gates's paramour, the man GATES: Yes. Hollywood Life So we knew he was Irish. "We deconstruct ethnic identities to show that when the lights came down, everyone was sleeping with everyone else -- that's the way human history goes!" . I love you being black. I said, well, I've never met Donald Trump. That's not the way it was. GROSS: And then your slightly more contemporary ancestors not having any rights in the country, you know, or very few rights - not being able to vote, having to live in segregation. In some states - like, New York would let them vote sometimes, and then take it away. As a result of the injury, Gates walks with a cane and his right leg is more than 2 inches shorter than his left. Race is a social construction. My mother used to read me - the greatest book ever written to me was "The Poky Little Puppy," right? Gates has such an eminent reputation", she said, "and so much gravitas. He applied the notion to the interpretation of slave narratives and showed how it informs the works of Phillis Wheatley, Zora Neale Hurston, Frederick Douglass, the early African American writers of periodical fiction, Ralph Ellison, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, and Soyinka. African-American - I love to joke about this. [5], At the age of 14, Gates was injured playing touch football, fracturing the ball and socket joint of his right hip, resulting in a slipped capital femoral epiphysis. More than anyone else, the historian is responsible for "entertaining the idea remotely" that Gates could become a writer. Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Head Negro In Charge. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. His name was John Redman. In 1973, Gates became the first African-American to receive a Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship to study at Cambridge. Please make sure your computer, VPN, or network allows Some critics suggest that adding Black literature will diminish the value of the Western canon, while separatists say that Gates is too accommodating to the dominant white culture in his advocacy of integration of the canon. February 12, 2010. And the black woman says all she wants is enough money to have a New Orleans-type funeral. and Ph.D. in English literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge. On other occasions, though it was rare, blacks did enslave other blacks for their labor. It's incredible that the mystery to my family tree - I'm looking toward Africa, and it was 18 miles away in Moorefield, W.Va., County Courthouse. doi:10.2307/1208745. GROSS: And it was reported as if it was a break-in, and a police officer came and arrested you. Even if you were free and you were black GATES: In most states, you weren't allowed to vote. And we filmed the whole thing. Each of the genetic analyses used in Facesadmixture analysis, haplotype grouping, and relative mappingincorporate underlying assumptions and algorithms that may be incompatible with the other techniques. Gates also notes that it is equally difficult to decide who should get such reparations and who should pay them, as slavery was legal under the laws of the colonies and the United States. And she and Claudette Colbert are both unmarried mothers. Gates is the host of the TV genealogy series "Finding Your Roots." [1] He rediscovered the earliest known African-American novels, long forgotten, and has published extensively on appreciating African-American literature as part of the Western canon. Tune in for all-new episodes as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores fascinating ancestries and family mysteries for an array of . While Gates has stressed the need for greater recognition of Black literature and Black culture, he does not advocate a "separatist" Black canon. And if you're Ashkenazi Jewish, you might have a higher risk for those kind of things or Tay-Sachs. Gates was the host and co-producer of African American Lives (2006) and African American Lives 2 (2008) in which the lineage of more than a dozen notable African Americans was traced using genealogical and historical resources, as well as genealogical DNA testing. And I'm wondering if being laid up from an injury for a while affected your desire to - and your time to immerse yourself in books. He also learned that one of his African ancestors includes a Yoruba man who was trafficked to America from Ouidah in present-day Republic of Benin. (SOUNDBITE OF ALLEN TOUSSAINT'S "EGYPTIAN FANTASY"). And so then they came in - this is a big deal back in 2008. JSTOR1208745. This is FRESH AIR. The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, African American who fought in the Revolutionary War, Alfred I. duPontColumbia University Award, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, The National Institute of Social Sciences, Who's Black and Why: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race. Such information forces you to contemplate your own history, he observes. . As Faces of America concludes, the connections among several of the participants are revealed using a technique developed by Altschuler and his colleague Mark Daly that is similar to 23andMes Relative Finder. These DNA cousins share several million of the three billion base pairs, suggesting a common ancestor a few or tens of generations in the past. In 2021, Gates was honored by PEN America with its Audible Literary Service Award. 22,158 talking about this. So I want to read something that you wrote about her. GROSS: And you got this information from the 1870 census. GROSS: So you know your medical background and if you're GATES: Yeah. GROSS: Yeah. In 2022, the Boston Public Library honored Gates with its Literary Lights Award. This trip came 25 years after Gates worked at a hospital in Kilimatinde, near Dodoma, Tanzania, when he was a 19-year-old pre-medical student at Yale University. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden eventually extended an invitation to Gates and the Cambridge officer who was involved to share a beer with them at the White House, which they accepted. GROSS: (Laughter) So I want to change the subject a little bit. GROSS: So having done your, like, ancestry and everything, were you close to your parents? Rather, he works for greater recognition of Black works and their integration into a larger, pluralistic canon. GATES: Otherwise they wouldn't be in a database. The technical aspects of genetic ancestry tracing are explained, but without sufficient social context, much the way a manual can tell you how to operate a car without explaining automobiles role in modern industry, the development of suburbia, or the emergence of youth culture. [7] In his major scholarly work, The Signifying Monkey, a 1989 American Book Award winner, Gates expressed what might constitute an African-American cultural aesthetic. GATES: But everyone who's in one of those databases has given some kind of permission. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. An X-ray showed a bright portion that revealed just how much of her brain tissue was destroyed. He has learned that he is also connected to the multiracial West Virginia community of Chestnut Ridge people. But I saw that photograph and read her obituary on the day that we buried my father's father, Edward St. Lawrence Gates. Daughter Elizabeth Gates interviews her dad about . GATES: I said, thank God. GATES: And then there was "The Late Late Show." Yet no lens is provided through which to interpret this genealogical bombshell. Gates developed the notion of signifyin in Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self (1987) and The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (1988). But I also watched TV. The program documents a 3,000-mile journey Gates took through Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Tanzania, with his then-wife, Sharon Adams, and daughters, Liza and Meggie Gates. And I wanted to be from them. Other works by Gates included Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties (1994), Colored People: A Memoir (1994), The Future of the Race (1996; with Cornel West), Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (1997), The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: Americas First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers (2003), America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans (2004), In Search of Our Roots (2009), and Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (2019). And the obituary said, died this day in Cumberland, Md., January 6, 1888; Aunt Jane Gates, an estimable colored woman. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. GROSS: It's mind-boggling. As Elizabeth Alexander comments in Faces about her own family history, We dont even know the half of it. That profound uncertainty makes it all the more troubling that Gladwell translates the peculiar institution into a personal burden. What percent would be Native American? Stay informed daily on the latest news and advice on COVID-19 from the editors at U.S. News & World Report. The fifth season of "Finding Your Roots" is currently showing on PBS. GROSS: I saw his picture in the obituary. Is this instance of intraracial slavery an anomaly? GATES: Don't you? A passerby called police, reporting a possible break-in after describing to 911 "an individual" forcing the front door open. And then when we go - when you were buried, she would stand up. And I was exhilarated. What does Henry Louis Gates, Jr., see as the most important form of resistance against hate? GROSS: Totally stunned. He is a Trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. His writing includes pieces in The New York Times that defend rap music and an article in Sports Illustrated that criticizes Black youth culture for glorifying basketball over education. It was just put on the historic GATES: Register in Maryland. When I became a teenager, my father and I bonded. [36], In 1974, Gates learned the Transcendental Meditation technique. In July 1976, Gates was promoted to the post of lecturer in Afro-American Studies, with the understanding that he would be promoted to assistant professor upon completion of his doctoral dissertation. After receiving a doctoral degree in English language and literature in 1979, Gates taught literature and African American studies at Yale University, Cornell University, Duke University, and Harvard University, where he was appointed W.E.B. In the second season of the program, Gates learned that he is part of a genetic subgroup that may be descended from or related to the fourth-century Irish king, Niall of the Nine Hostages. It's called the Beer Summit. GATES: And, you know, what's even more amazing, it's - one, it was my mother's third great grandfather - my fourth great grandfather. He is on the boards of many notable institutions, including the, In 2010, Gates became the first African American to have his, In December 2014, Gates was announced as one of 14 recipients of a 2015. He was there in exile because he had been in prison and to be offering civil war for 27 months and was given a fellowship at the University of Cambridge. He was 97, as you said. On October 23, 2006, Gates was appointed the Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor at Harvard University. And my father would just make up stories and tell my brother and me. And GATES: Yeah. Following a two-year stay at Duke University, he was recruited to Harvard University in 1991.
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