Finding Your Roots, Season 2: The Official Companion to the PBS Series - Hardcover

Gates, Henry Louis

 
9781469626185: Finding Your Roots, Season 2: The Official Companion to the PBS Series
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1469626187 ISBN 13: 9781469626185
Verlag: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PR, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the hit PBS documentary series. As scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. clearly demonstrates, the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical research now allow us to learn more about our roots and look further back in time than ever before.

In the second season, Gates's investigation takes on the personal and genealogical histories of more than twenty luminaries, including Ken Burns, Stephen King, Derek Jeter, Governor Deval Patrick, Valerie Jarrett, and Sally Field. As Gates interlaces these moving stories of immigration, assimilation, strife, and success, he provides practical information for amateur genealogists just beginning archival research on their own families' roots and details the advances in genetic research now available to the public. The result is an illuminating exploration of who we are, how we lost track of our roots, and how we can find them again.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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Verlag
UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1469626187
ISBN 13 
9781469626185
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
440
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