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In Search of Our Roots audiobook
- By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Narrator: Dominic Hoffman
- Category: General, History, United States
- Length: 16 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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In Search of Our Roots Audiobook Summary
Most African Americans, in tracing their family’s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was a brutally efficient nullifier of identity, willfully denying black men and women even their names. 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.
Those whose recovered pasts collectively form an African American “people’s history” of the United States include celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Rock, Don Cheadle, Chris Tucker, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner, and Quincy Jones; writers such as Maya Angelou and Bliss Broyard; leading thinkers such as Harvard divinity professor Peter Gomes, the Reverend T. D. Jakes, neurosurgeon Ben Carson, sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot; and famous achievers such as Mae Jemison, Tom Joyner, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Linda Johnson Rice.
More than a work of history, In Search of Our Roots is a book of revelatory importance 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.
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In Search of Our Roots Audiobook Narrator
Dominic Hoffman is the narrator of In Search of Our Roots audiobook that was written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
About the Author(s) of In Search of Our Roots
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the author of In Search of Our Roots
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In Search of Our Roots Full Details
| Narrator | Dominic Hoffman |
| Length | 16 hours 12 minutes |
| Author | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781415959541 |
Subjects
The publisher of the In Search of Our Roots is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: injustice, civil rights movement, history lovers gifts, civil rights, tina turner, maya angelou, morgan freeman, whoopi goldberg, Oprah, white privilege, social justice, racial justice, race in america, justice, race, history buff gifts, black history books, african american books, ancestry, race relations, united states history, genealogy books, ancestry book, black lives matter, african american, family tree, family history, family, slavery, us history, black history, history books, African American history, genetics, history, History, United States, General The BISAC Subject Code is General, History, United States
Additional info
The publisher of the In Search of Our Roots is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781415959541.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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