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Roots

byAlex Haley

Genres: Fiction Historical fiction Historical Fantasies

Who is this book for? Readers interested in African American history, family sagas, and historical fiction.

Topics SlaveryAfrican american historyFamily heritageCultural impactIdentityGenerational legacyRoots tracingRacial injusticeResilienceAncestral connectionsFamilySurvivalFreedomRace and Prejudice

MoodReflective, Melancholic

ViolenceModerate

Discover Alex Haley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning search for his family's origins: a powerful memoir, a history of slavery and a landmark in African-American literature.Tracing his ancestry through six generations of architects, lawyers, blacksmiths, farmers, freedmen and slaves, Alex Haley’s research took him back to Africa and a sixteen-year-old youth named Kunta Kinte. Torn from his homeland and brought to the slave markets of the New World, re-imagining Kunta’s journey would allow Haley to explore his family’s deep and distant past.‘A gripping mixture of urban confessional and political manifesto, Roots not only inspired a generation of black activists, but drove home the bitter realities of racism to a mainstream white liberal audience’ ObserverWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID OLUSOGA, AUTHOR OF BLACK AND BRITISH

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13/09/2018

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ISBN

9781784873387

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