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Pushing Literary Limits Henry Louis Gates, JR., and the Modern Curriculum
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Literary and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr., thrives on controversy. "I began my career fighting for what we call cultural pluralism," he once said in a television interview. The battle that began in the English literature department at Cambridge University in England in the 1970s is clearly triumphing: In high schools and colleges across the nation Shakespeare is taught alongside Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright is required reading as well as Plato. Gates remembers when this wasn't always the case.
"There was no African or African American studies at the University of Cambridge. I mean, I was told in no uncertain terms that I could write about Milton or …
