Dreams from my father a story of race and inheritance /
Obama, Barack.
Dreams from my father a story of race and inheritance / [book club] : Barack Obama. - 1st pbk. ed. - xvii, 457 p. ; 21 cm.
See Reference Desk for Bookclub books. Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. With new introd. and text from keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004.
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man, has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey, first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
9781400082773 1400082773
2004012412
Obama, Barack.
Obama, Barack.
Obama, Barack.
African Americans--Biography.
Racially mixed people--United States--Biography.
Racism--United States.
Racism--United States.
African Americans--Biography.
Noirs am�ericains--Biographies.
Racisme--�Etats-Unis.
African Americans.
Race relations.
Racially mixed people.
Racism.
United States--Race relations.
United States--Race relations.
�Etats-Unis--Relations raciales.
United States.
Biographies.
E185.97.O23 / A3 2004
973/.0405967625009/0092 B
Dreams from my father a story of race and inheritance / [book club] : Barack Obama. - 1st pbk. ed. - xvii, 457 p. ; 21 cm.
See Reference Desk for Bookclub books. Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. With new introd. and text from keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004.
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man, has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey, first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
9781400082773 1400082773
2004012412
Obama, Barack.
Obama, Barack.
Obama, Barack.
African Americans--Biography.
Racially mixed people--United States--Biography.
Racism--United States.
Racism--United States.
African Americans--Biography.
Noirs am�ericains--Biographies.
Racisme--�Etats-Unis.
African Americans.
Race relations.
Racially mixed people.
Racism.
United States--Race relations.
United States--Race relations.
�Etats-Unis--Relations raciales.
United States.
Biographies.
E185.97.O23 / A3 2004
973/.0405967625009/0092 B