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Henry Louis Gates Jr. has edited two Critical Inquiry books—'Race,' Writing and Difference and Identities (with Kwame Anthony Appiah)—and sits on the journal's Editorial Board.  His most recent article in CI is "The Third World of Theory: Enlightenment's Esau," a study of Richard Wright that appeared in a special issue honoring W.J.T. Mitchell.   We reprint it below as a PDF, free to nonsubscribers.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr., "The Third World of Theory: Enlightenment's Esau"

 

Other articles by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (JSTOR subscription required):

The "Blackness of Blackness": A Critique of the Sign and the Signifying Monkey

Editor's Introduction: Writing "Race" and the Difference It Makes

 

Talkin' That Talk

 

Critical Fanonism

 

Editors' Introduction: Multiplying Identities (with Kwame Anthony Appiah)

 

Harlem on Our Minds

 

Josephine Baker and Paul Colin: African American Dance Seen through Parisian Eyes (with Karen C.C. Dalton)

 

Third World of Theory: Enlightenment's Esau