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In Search of Our Roots - How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
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Host of PBS's Finding Your Roots and famed Harvard
professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses
African-American immigration and ancestry in the
context of the American political climate. Unlike most white
Americans who can search their ancestral records, identifying who
among their forebears was the first to step foot on this
country’s shores, most African Americans encounter a series of
daunting obstacles when trying to trace their family’s past.
Slavery brutally negated identity, denying black men and women even
their names. But from that legacy of slavery have sprung
generations who’ve struggled, thrived, and lived extraordinary
lives. For too long, African Americans’ family trees have been
barren of branches, but advanced genetic testing techniques,
combined with archival research, have begun to fill in the gaps.
Here, scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., backed by an elite team of
geneticists and researchers, takes nineteen extraordinary African
Americans on a once unimaginable journey, tracing family sagas
through U.S. history and back to Africa. Dr. Gates brings to life
the recovered pasts of: Oprah Winfrey Whoopi Goldberg Chris Rock
Tina Turner Maya Angelou Peter Gomes Mae Jemison Quincy Jones
Morgan Freeman Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Tom Joyner Benjamin Carson
T.D. Jakes Linda Johnson Rice Kathleen Henderson Jackie
Joyner-Kersee Don Cheadle Bliss Broyard Chris Tucker More than a
work of history, In Search of Our Roots is an important book that,
for the first time, brings to light the lives of ordinary men and
women who, by courageous example, blazed a path for their famous
descendants. In accompanying the nineteen contemporary achievers on
their journey into the past and meeting their remarkable forebears,
we come to know ourselves.
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Imprint: |
Skyhorse Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2024 |
Authors: |
Henry Louis Gates
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
456 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5107-7885-6 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-5107-7885-3 |
Barcode: |
9781510778856 |
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