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Wonders of the African world

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V3510D136
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March 24, 2004
Entire Copyright Document:
V3510 D109-211 P1-419
Title:
Wonders of the African world / By various artists.
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2
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Meteora & 27,009 other titles. (Part 027 of 102)

Henry Louis Gates--civil rights project

Document number:
V3543D122
Date of Recordation:
September 22, 2006
Entire Copyright Document:
V3543 D122 P1-3
Date of Execution:
December 31, 1969
Title:
Henry Louis Gates--civil rights project : proposed program. Created by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., as a work-for-hire of HBO Films, Inc.
Notes:
Certificate of authorship.
Party 1 personal name:
Henry Louis Gates
Names:
Jr. Henry Louis Gates (1 documents)
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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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HBO Films, Inc. (354 documents)
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Wonders of the African world

Type of Work:
Sound recording
Registration Number / Date:
SR0000277377 / 2000-03-13
Date of Publication:
December 7, 1999
Date of Creation:
1999
Title:
Wonders of the African world.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: compilation of remixed sound recordings.
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All tracks prev. pub.
Description:
Compact disc.
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2
Publisher Number:
PBS/Warner Brothers 9 47492-2
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Warner Brothers Records, Inc.
Notes:
Music from the documentary with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Performer:
Performed by various artists.
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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Warner Brothers Records, Inc. (2801 documents)
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Selected essays from The best American essays of the century

Type of Work:
Sound recording
Registration Number / Date:
SR0000291713 / 2001-09-05
Date of Publication:
June 7, 2001
Date of Creation:
2001
Title:
Selected essays from The best American essays of the century : vol. 2 / edited by Joyce Carol Gates.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: recordings & narration.
Imprint:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2001.
Description:
4 sound cassettes.
Number of similar titles:
1
Variant title:
Selected essays from The best American essays of the century : vol. 2
Other Title:
The best American essays of the century
Copyright Claimant:
Houghton Mifflin Company (employer for hire)
Notes:
Based on The best American essays of the century.
Performer:
Read by John Krakauer, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Kathleen Norris et al.
Names:
Kathleen Norris (38 documents)
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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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John Krakauer

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Joyce Carol Gates
Houghton Mifflin Company (5930 documents)
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Our Nig

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0001146220 / 1983-06-02
Date of Publication:
April 19, 1983
Date of Creation:
1982
Title:
Our Nig : or, Sketches from the life of a free black in a two-story white house, North : showing that slavery's shadows fall even there / by "Our Nig" [i.e. Harriet E. Wilson].
Edition:
2d ed.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: "introd., textual notes, chronology & bibliography."
Imprint:
New York : Random House, c1983.
Description:
1 v.
Other Title:
Sketches from the life of a free black in a two-story white house, North
Copyright Claimant:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Authorship on Application:
textual apparatus, introd., notes, chronology & bibliography: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Names:
Harriet E. Wilson 1808-
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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The Slave's narrative

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0001689907 / 1985-05-28
Date of Publication:
May 16, 1985
Date of Creation:
1984
Title:
The Slave's narrative / Charles T. Davis [i.e. Charles Twitchell Davis] and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: "preface, introduction, compilation, all editorial matter."
Imprint:
New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
Description:
342 p.
Copyright Claimant:
Oxford University Press, Inc.
Names:
Charles Twitchell Davis 1918-1981
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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Oxford University Press, Inc. (2738 documents)
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Wole Soyinka

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0001780180 / 1986-03-14
Date of Publication:
January 28, 1986
Date of Creation:
1986
Title:
Wole Soyinka : a bibliography of primary and secondary sources / compiled by James Gibbs, Ketu H. Katrak, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Imprint:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1986.
Description:
107 p.
Number of similar titles:
4
Copyright Claimant:
James Gibbs, Ketu H. Katrak & Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 1950-
Ketu H. Katrak 1952-
James Gibbs 1942-

"Race," writing, and difference

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002030701 / 1987-02-18
Date of Publication:
January 14, 1987
Date of Creation:
1986
Title:
"Race," writing, and difference / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: "introduction; editing; compilation; index."
Imprint:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1986.
Description:
422 p.
Other Title:
Critical inquiry
Copyright Claimant:
the University of Chicago
Notes:
Essays in this volume originally appeared in the autumn 1985 & autumn 1986 issues of Critical inquiry.
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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University of Chicago (3664 documents)
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Figures in black

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002122503 / 1987-07-30
Date of Publication:
July 16, 1987
Date of Creation:
1987
Title:
Figures in black : words, signs, and the "racial" self / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Imprint:
New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
Description:
311 p.
Copyright Claimant:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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The Classic slave narratives

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002159573 / 1987-10-16
Date of Publication:
September 1, 1987
Date of Creation:
1986
Title:
The Classic slave narratives / edited and with an introd. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: "introduction, compilation, and editing."
Imprint:
New York : New American Library, c1987.
Description:
518 p.
Number of similar titles:
1
Similar Title:
The Classic slave narratives
Copyright Claimant:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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The Signifying monkey

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002423235 / 1988-09-29
Date of Publication:
August 11, 1988
Date of Creation:
1986
Title:
The Signifying monkey : a theory of Afro-American literary criticism / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Imprint:
New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
Description:
290 p.
Number of similar titles:
2
Similar Title:
The Signifying monkey. w & m Oscar Brown, Jr
Copyright Claimant:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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To make a poet Black

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002437474 / 1988-10-04
Date of Publication:
July 12, 1988
Date of Creation:
1988
Title:
To make a poet Black / J. Saunders Redding ; with an introd. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: "introduction."
Imprint:
Ithaca, N. Y. : Cornell University Press, c1988.
Description:
142 p.
Copyright Claimant:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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Jay Saunders Redding 1906-1988
J. Saunders Redding

The Autobiograpy of an ex-coloured man

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002765008 / 1990-02-27
Date of Publication:
December 14, 1989
Date of Creation:
1989
Title:
The Autobiograpy of an ex-coloured man / James Weldon Johnson ; with an introd. by Carl VanVechten ; with an introd. to the Vintage ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: new introd. to the Vintage ed.
Previous Registration:
Prev. reg. 1912, A316109 & 1927, A999480.
Copyright Claimant:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Names:
James Weldon Johnson 1871-1938
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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Carl VanVechten (14 documents)
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Black literature, 1827-1940

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002837515 / 1990-05-14
Date of Publication:
April 15, 1990
Date of Creation:
1989
Title:
Black literature, 1827-1940 : author/title index to unit 1.
Description:
1 v.
Variant title:
Black literature, 1827-1940 : author/title index to unit 1
Copyright Claimant:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Authorship on Application:
editor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 1950-

Jonah's gourd vine

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002853958 / 1990-07-26
Date of Publication:
February 28, 1990
Date of Creation:
1989
Title:
Jonah's gourd vine : a novel / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a new foreword by Rita Dove ; series editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: "afterword, compilation of selected bibliography and chronology, 207-229."
Previous Registration:
Prev. reg. 1934.
Description:
1 v.
Number of similar titles:
1
Copyright Claimant:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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Rita Dove (7 documents)
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Zora Neale Hurston (62 documents)
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Jonah's gourd vine

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002853959 / 1990-07-26
Date of Publication:
February 28, 1990
Date of Creation:
1989
Title:
Jonah's gourd vine : a novel / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a new foreword by Rita Dove ; series editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: "foreword, p. vii-xv."
Previous Registration:
Prev. reg. 1934.
Description:
1 v.
Number of similar titles:
1
Copyright Claimant:
Rita Dove
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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Rita Dove (7 documents)
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Zora Neale Hurston (62 documents)
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Establishing the identity of the author of Our nig

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002860139 / 1990-06-01
Date of Publication:
December 19, 1989
Date of Creation:
1988
Title:
Establishing the identity of the author of Our nig / David Ames Curtis and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Other Title:
Wild women in the whirlwind
Copyright Claimant:
D. A. Curtis & Henry L. Gates
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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David Ames Curtis

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D. A. Curtis

Mules and men

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002868902 / 1990-07-27
Date of Publication:
February 28, 1990
Date of Creation:
1989
Title:
Mules and men / Zora Neale Hurston ; pref. by Franz Boas ; with a new foreword by Arnold Rampersad ; ill. by Miguel Covarrubias.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: "afterword and compilation."
Previous Registration:
Prev. reg. 1935.
Description:
1 v.
Number of similar titles:
3
Copyright Claimant:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Authorship on Application:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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Miguel Covarrubias (5 documents)
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Arnold Rampersad (64 documents)
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Critical remarks

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002887346 / 1990-08-29
Date of Publication:
August 20, 1990
Date of Creation:
1990
Title:
Critical remarks / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Number of similar titles:
1
Other Title:
Anatomy of racism
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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Three classic African-American novels

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002947762 / 1990-10-22
Date of Publication:
July 31, 1990
Date of Creation:
1990
Title:
Three classic African-American novels / edited and with an introd. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Edition:
1st ed.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: introd.
Series:
Vintage classics
Description:
1 v.
Number of similar titles:
1
Other Title:
Classic African-American novels
The Marrow of tradition
Shadows uplifted
Iola Leroy
The President's daughter
Clotel
Copyright Claimant:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Notes:
Includes Clotel: or, The President's daughter by William Wells Brown, Iola Leroy: or, Shadows uplifted by Frances E. W. Harper & The Marrow of tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt.
Names:
Charles Weddell Chesnutt 1858-1932
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1825-1911
William Wells Brown 1818-1884
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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Joe Appiah

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002962859 / 1990-10-12
Date of Publication:
August 27, 1990
Date of Creation:
1990
Title:
Joe Appiah : the autobiography of an African patriot / Joseph Appiah ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Copyright Note:
C.O. correspondence.
Description:
1 v.
Variant title:
Joe Appiah : the autobiography of an African patriot
Copyright Claimant:
Anthony Appiah
Names:
Appiah, Joseph, -1990
Anthony Appiah
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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Reading black, reading feminist

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0003072335 / 1991-05-09
Date of Publication:
November 1, 1990
Date of Creation:
1989
Title:
Reading black, reading feminist : a critical anthology / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: compilation & additional text.
Description:
1 v.
Copyright Claimant:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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Introduction to scholarship in modern languages and literatures

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0003402980 / 1992-04-15
Date of Publication:
April 1, 1992
Date of Creation:
1992
Title:
Introduction to scholarship in modern languages and literatures / edited by Joseph Gibaldi.
Edition:
2nd ed.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: additions & revisions.
Copyright Note:
C.O. correspondence.
Number of similar titles:
1
Copyright Claimant:
Modern Language Association of America (employer for hire)
Authorship on Application:
Edward Finegan, 1940-, Dennis Baron, 1944-, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 1950- et al.
Names:
Joseph Gibaldi 1942-
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 1950-
Dennis Baron 1944-
Edward Finegan 1940-
Modern Language Association of America (273 documents)
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Jazz

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0003546103 / 1992-06-15
Date of Publication:
April 20, 1992
Date of Creation:
1991
Title:
Jazz / Toni Morrison.
Edition:
Deluxe, limited 1st ed.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: special contents, special message & frontispiece.
Previous Registration:
Prev. reg. 1992, TX 3-306-749.
Copyright Note:
C.O. correspondence.
Description:
1 v.
Copyright Claimant:
on special contents; Franklin Library (Franklin Center, PA)
Authorship on Application:
frontispiece: Eric Dinyer.
Names:
Eric Dinyer

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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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Toni Morrison (80 documents)
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Franklin Library (Franklin Center, PA) (17 documents)
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Richard Wright

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0003565371 / 1993-05-27
Date of Publication:
May 20, 1993
Date of Creation:
1993
Title:
Richard Wright.
Application Title:
Richard Wright: critical perspectives past and present.
Copyright Note:
C.O. correspondence.
Description:
1 v.
Number of similar titles:
58
Similar Title:
Richard Wright
Copyright Claimant:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Authorship on Application:
pref.: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0003565381 / 1993-05-27
Date of Publication:
May 20, 1993
Date of Creation:
1993
Title:
Langston Hughes (1902-1967 : preface.
Application Title:
Langston Hughes: critical perspectives past and present.
Copyright Note:
C.O. correspondence.
Description:
1 v.
Other Title:
Langston Hughes: critical perspectives past and present
Copyright Claimant:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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The African American experience--a history

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0003592816 / 1993-06-24
Date of Publication:
November 1, 1991
Date of Creation:
1991
Title:
The African American experience--a history : teacher's resource manual / with an introd. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Imprint:
Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Globe Book Company, c1992.
Description:
308 p.
Copyright Claimant:
Globe Book Company (employer for hire)
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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Globe Book Company (435 documents)
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Loose canons

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0003614328 / 1993-09-22
Date of Publication:
April 30, 1992
Date of Creation:
1991
Title:
Loose canons : notes on the culture wars / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: introd., compilation, editorial apparatus, & revised version of chapter 7.
Imprint:
New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Description:
199 p.
Copyright Claimant:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Names:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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A documentary history of the Negro people in the United States, 1945-1951

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0003678443 / 1993-12-21
Date of Publication:
December 16, 1993
Date of Creation:
1993
Title:
A documentary history of the Negro people in the United States, 1945-1951 : vol. 5, from the end of World War II to the Korean War / edited by Herbert Aptheker ; pref. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Imprint:
New York : Carol Pub. Group, c1993.
Description:
509 p.
Variant title:
A documentary history of the Negro people in the United States, 1945-1951 : vol. 5
Copyright Claimant:
Herbert Aptheker, 1915-
Names:
Herbert Aptheker 1915-
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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Wonders of the African world

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0005113386 / 2000-03-10
Date of Publication:
September 23, 1999
Date of Creation:
1999
Title:
Wonders of the African world / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; with photos by Lynn Davis.
Edition:
1st ed.
Previous Registration:
Appl. states entire text is new excluding brief quotes from other sources & prev. pub. portion.
Imprint:
New York : A.A. Knopf, 1999.
Description:
275 p.
Number of similar titles:
2
Copyright Claimant:
Henry Louis Gates
Names:
Lynn Davis (24 documents)
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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (87 documents)
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