Finding your roots : the official companion to the PBS series

Summary:

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 Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. shows us, the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical research now allow us to learn more about our roots, looking further back in time than ever before.

The author investigates the geneological histories of twenty-five prominent Americans, including Cory Booker, Martha Stewart, and Michelle Rodriguez.

Record details

ISBN: 9781469618005
ISBN: 1469618001
ISBN: 9781469626147
ISBN: 1469626144
Physical Description: xiv, 330 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword / by David Altshuler -- Genetic gumbo : Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr. -- The long arc of freedom : John Lewis and Cory Booker -- What's in a name? : Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada -- Redemption : Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon -- The children of Abraham : Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl, and Yasir Qadhi -- From the Old World to the New : Robert Downey Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal -- Shadows : Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice, and Ruth Simmons -- Crossings : Margaret Cho, Sanjay Gupta, and Martha Stewart -- Neither slave nor free : Wanda Sykes, John Legend, and Margarett Cooper -- In the footsteps of conquistadors : Michelle Rodriguez, Linda Chavez, and Adrian Grenier.
Language Note:	In English.