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Finding Oprah's Roots
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  • Published: 2 April 2007
  • ISBN: 9780307382382
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $39.99

Finding Oprah's Roots

Finding Yours

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23 Jan 2007
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6 Mar 2007
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2 Apr 2007
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For the many who are curious about the family background of America's most powerful--and beloved--female celebrity, Oprah Winfrey...viewers of PBS's "African American Lives" and the forthcoming "Finding Oprah's Roots" (Feb. 07)...and especially, the millions of African Americans who want to recover their past by identifying their ancestors and the legacy they bequeathed.

Finding Oprah’s Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by history’s unsung but also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past. A roadmap through the intricacies of public documents and online databases, the book also highlights genetic testing resources that can make it possible to know one’s distant tribal roots in Africa.

For Oprah, the path back to the past was emotion-filled and profoundly illuminating, connecting the narrative of her family to the larger American narrative and “anchoring” her in a way not previously possible. For the reader, Finding Oprah’s Roots offers the possibility of an equally rewarding experience.
  • Published: 2 April 2007
  • ISBN: 9780307382382
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the authors

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored numerous books, including most recently Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow and The Black Church, and has created more than twenty documentary films, including his groundbreaking genealogy series Finding Your Roots. His six-part PBS documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, earned an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and an NAACP Image Award. This series and his PBS documentary series Reconstruction: America after the Civil War were both honored with the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. His most recent PBS documentary is Gospel.
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