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In search of our roots : how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
| Authors: | Gates, Henry Louis. |
| Call number: | 973.0496 GAT |
| Publisher: | New York : Crown Publishers, c2009. |
| Publication date: | c2009. |
| Subject: |
African Americans -- Genealogy.
African Americans -- Biography. United States -- Genealogy. Africa -- Genealogy. |
| Title: | In search of our roots : how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | viii, 438 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents note: | 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780307382405 0307382400 |
| LCCN: | 2008011860 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1166665 |
| Bib No.: | 1166665 |
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