Gates Takes a New Look at 'Uncle Tom' [audio 38min]

In the 1950s, Uncle Tom's Cabin went from being a literary phenomenon to an object of scorn, with its title character symbolizing black self-loathing. Henry Louis Gates has re-examined the book in a new annotated edition. Guests: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chair, African and African-American Studies Department at Harvard; and Hollis Robbins, assisted on notes on The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin; member of the faculty at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins.