Book

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr

Finding your roots : the official companion to the PBS series / Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; forward by David Altshuler

Finding your roots season 1 : the official companion to the PBS series

Finding your roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Season 1

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : The University of North Carolina Press, ©2014

xiv, 330 pages ; 24 cm

"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 Season 1 of 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. Gates provides practical information for amateur genealogists just beginning archival research on their own families' roots, and he 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." -- back cover

Includes index

Forward by David Altshuler -- Chaper one: Genetic Gumbo - Branford Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr. -- Chapter Two: The long arc of freedom - John Lewis, Cory Booker -- Chapter Three: What's in a name? - Barbara Walters, Geoffrey Canada -- Chapter four: Redemption - Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon -- Chapter five: The children of Abraham - Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl, Yasir Qadhi -- Chapter six: From the old world to the new - Robert Downey Jr., Maggie Gyllenhaal -- Chapter seven: Shadows - Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice, Ruth Simmons -- Chapter eight: Crossings - Margaret Cho, Sanjay Gupta, Martha Stewart -- Chapter nine: Neither slave nor free - Wanda Sykes, John Legend, Margarett Cooper -- Chapter ten: In the footsteps of conquistadors - Michelle Rodriguez, Linda Chavez, Adrian Grenier -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Connick, Harry, Jr., 1967-

Marsalis, Branford

Lewis, John, 1940-2020

Booker, Cory

Walters, Barbara, 1929-

Canada, Geoffrey

Sedgwick, Kyra

Bacon, Kevin, 1958-

Warren, Rick, 1954-

Buchdahl, Angela

Qadhi, Yasir, 1975-

Downey, Robert, Jr., 1965-

Gyllenhaal, Maggie, 1977-

Jackson, Samuel L

Rice, Condoleezza, 1954-

Simmons, Ruth, 1945-

Cho, Margaret

Gupta, Sanjay, 1949-

Stewart, Martha

Sykes, Wanda, 1964-

Legend, John

Cooper, Margarett

Rodriguez, Michelle

Chavez, Linda

Grenier, Adrian, 1976-

Celebrities -- Genealogy

Families -- History

Genealogy

Altshuler, David, Dr

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

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