Gates Henry Louis Jr.
Gates Henry Louis Jr. - In Search Of Our Roots How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past - Paperback
Gates Henry Louis Jr. - In Search Of Our Roots How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: In Search Of Our Roots How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
Author(s): Gates Henry Louis Jr.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Barcode: 9781510778856
Pages: 456 Pages
Publication Date: 2/20/2024
Category: Black & Asian Studies
Description: 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.
Title: In Search Of Our Roots How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
Author(s): Gates Henry Louis Jr.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Barcode: 9781510778856
Pages: 456 Pages
Publication Date: 2/20/2024
Category: Black & Asian Studies
