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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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 City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.
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- Summary
- In this 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Updated and revised edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 442 pages
- Isbn
- 9781400082773
- 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
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- trueLegislators -- Illinois -- Biography
- trueKenya -- Social conditions
- trueSociety and culture -- Race
- trueObama, Barack
- trueRacism -- United States
- trueUnited States -- Race relations
- Nonfiction
- trueAfrican Americans -- Biography
- trueAfrican American legislators -- Biography
- trueAfrican American politicians -- Biography
- trueLife stories -- Politics | Politicians
- trueChicago, Illinois -- Race relations
- trueCommunity organizers -- Illinois
- trueBiographies
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueMultiracial persons -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In this 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
- 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
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- 185007
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 973.932092
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- 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
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Edition
- Updated and revised edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 442 pages
- Isbn
- 9781400082773
- Lccn
- 2004012412
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (Sirsi) a410302
- Label
- Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance, Barack Obama
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Edition
- Updated and revised edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 442 pages
- Isbn
- 9781400082773
- Lccn
- 2004012412
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (Sirsi) a410302
Subject
- trueAfrican American legislators -- Biography
- trueAfrican American politicians -- Biography
- trueAfrican Americans -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueBiographies
- trueChicago, Illinois -- Race relations
- trueCommunity organizers -- Illinois
- trueKenya -- Social conditions
- trueLegislators -- Illinois -- Biography
- trueLife stories -- Politics | Politicians
- trueMultiracial persons -- Biography
- Nonfiction
- trueObama, Barack
- trueRacism -- United States
- trueSociety and culture -- Race
- trueUnited States -- Race relations
Genre
- Autobiographies
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueBiography
- trueLife stories
- trueSociety and culture
Included in
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Adult Nonfiction for Young Adults: 1995
- trueBritish Book Awards (the Nibbies): Biography of the Year
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