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In search of our roots : how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past
Title:
In search of our roots : how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past
Author:
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Crown Publishers, [2009]

©2009
Physical Description:
viii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction: Family matters -- Prefatory notes on the African slave trade -- Maya Angelou -- Quincy Jones -- Morgan Freeman -- Tina Turner -- Peter J. Gomes -- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot -- Tom Joyner -- Benjamin Carson -- Oprah Winfrey -- Whoopi Goldberg -- Mae Jemison -- T.D. Jakes -- Linda Johnson Rice -- Kathleen Henderson -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -- Don Cheadle -- Chris Rock -- Bliss Broyard -- Chris Tucker -- How to trace your own roots -- Note on DNA testing methods.
ISBN:
9780307382405
Format :
Book