a story of race and inheritance Obama, Barack 1961- creator text nyu New York Three Rivers Press c2004 2004 monographic eng

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xvii, 453 p. ; 21 cm. In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey, first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. With new introd. and text from keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004. Barack Obama. n-us--- Obama, Barack African Americans Biography Racially mixed people United States Biography Racism United States United States Race relations African Americans Biography 002 E 185.97 O12d 2004 973/.0405967625013/092 1400082773 (trade pbk.) 9781400082773 (trade pbk.) 2004012412 http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2004012412.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2004012412.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2004012412.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2004012412.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2004012412.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2004012412.html 060907 20230404125807.0 22348