The Resource Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance, Barack Obama
Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance, Barack Obama
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The item Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance, Barack Obama represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Barton Rees Pogue Memorial Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance, Barack Obama represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Barton Rees Pogue Memorial Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- 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 father7 figure he knows more as a myth than as a man7as been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey7irst to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother2 family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father2 life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Extent
- xvii, 453 pages
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995
- Isbn
- 9780329444242
- Label
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
- Title
- Dreams from my father
- Title remainder
- a story of race and inheritance
- Statement of responsibility
- Barack Obama
- Subject
-
- Obama, Barack
- trueRacism -- United States
- Racism -- United States
- Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography
- United States -- Race relations
- trueUnited States -- Race relations
- trueSociety and culture -- Race
- trueAfrican American legislators -- Biography
- trueAfrican Americans -- Biography
- African Americans -- Biography
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueChicago, Illinois -- Race relations
- trueCommunity organizers -- Illinois
- trueKenya -- Social conditions
- Large type books
- trueLegislators -- Illinois -- Biography
- trueLife stories -- Politics | Politicians
- trueMultiracial persons -- Biography
- trueObama, Barack
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 father7 figure he knows more as a myth than as a man7as been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey7irst to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother2 family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father2 life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance
- Summary
- The son of an African father and white American mother discusses his childhood in Hawaii, his struggle to find his identity as an African American, and his life accomplishments
- Award
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- Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults, 1995.
- British Book Award for Biography of the Year, 2009.
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 185007
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Obama, Barack
- Dewey number
-
- 973/.0405967625009/0092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E185.97.O23
- LC item number
- A3 2004
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Obama, Barack
- African Americans
- Racially mixed people
- Racism
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- a story of race and inheritance
- Label
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance, Barack Obama
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 18190401
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Extent
- xvii, 453 pages
- Isbn
- 9780329444242
- Lccn
- 2004012412
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (LHPL)255435
- Label
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance, Barack Obama
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 18190401
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Extent
- xvii, 453 pages
- Isbn
- 9780329444242
- Lccn
- 2004012412
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (LHPL)255435
Subject
- Obama, Barack
- trueRacism -- United States
- Racism -- United States
- Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography
- United States -- Race relations
- trueUnited States -- Race relations
- trueSociety and culture -- Race
- trueAfrican American legislators -- Biography
- trueAfrican Americans -- Biography
- African Americans -- Biography
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueChicago, Illinois -- Race relations
- trueCommunity organizers -- Illinois
- trueKenya -- Social conditions
- Large type books
- trueLegislators -- Illinois -- Biography
- trueLife stories -- Politics | Politicians
- trueMultiracial persons -- Biography
- trueObama, Barack
Genre
- trueLife stories
- trueSociety and culture
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueBiography
- Large type books
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