In search of our roots
Subtitle: how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past
By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780307382405
Subjects: African Americans -- Genealogy; African Americans -- Biography; United States -- Genealogy; Africa -- Genealogy
Genres: Genealogy.; Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prefatory notes on the African slave trade; title: Maya Angelou; title: Quincy Jones; title: Morgan Freeman; title: Tina Turner; title: Peter Gomes; title: Sara Lawrence Lightfoot; title: Tom Joyner; title: Benjamin Carson; title: Oprah Winfrey; title: Whoopi Goldberg; title: Mae Jemison; title: T.D. Jakes; title: Linda Johnson Rice; title: Kathleen Henderson; title: Jackie Joyner-Kersee; title: Don Cheadle; title: Chris Rock; title: Bliss Broyard; title: Chris Tucker; title: How to trace your own roots; title: Note on DNA testing methods.