Roots
Author: Alex Haley
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 696
ISBN-13:
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Reconsidering Roots
Author: Erica Ball
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0820350834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays--from scholars in history, sociology, film, and media studies--interrogate Roots, assessing the ways that the book and its dramatization recast representations of slavery, labor, and the black family; reflected on the promise of freedom and civil rights; and engaged discourses of race, gender, violence, and power.
Roots
Author: Alex Haley
Publisher:
Published: 2016-05-03
Total Pages: 913
ISBN-13: 030682485X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK#1 New York Times Bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, reissued to coincide with History Channel's new event series
Alex Haley and the Books That Changed a Nation
Author: Robert J. Norrell
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2015-11-10
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1466879319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis in-depth biography chronicles the life, career, and enduring influence of the author of Roots and The Autobiography of Malcom X. A New York Times Sunday Book Review Editors’ Choice Alex Haley’s influence on American society in the second half of the twentieth century cannot be overstated. His two great works radically changed the way white and black Americans viewed each other and their country. This biography follows Haley from his childhood in segregated Tennessee to the creation of those two seminal works, and the fame and fortune that followed. After discovering a passion for writing in the Navy, Haley became a star journalist in the heyday of magazine profiles. At Playboy, he profiled everyone from Martin Luther King and Miles Davis to Johnny Carson and Malcolm X—which led to their collaboration on The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Roots was a more personal project for Haley. The book and subsequent miniseries ignited an ongoing craze for family history and made Haley one of the most famous writers in the country. This deeply researched biography delves into his literary craft, his career as one of the first African American star journalists, and the turbulent times in which he lived.
Alex Haley's Queen
Author: Alex Haley
Publisher: Pan
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 915
ISBN-13: 9780330333078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFarverig og dramatisk slægtsskildring fra 1800-tallets USA. Queen er Alex Haleys farmor, datter af en velhavende sydstatsgodsejer og en sort slavepige, og kernen i romanen er hendes tunge skæbne som plantagebarn mellem to verdener
Alex Haley's Roots
Author: Adam Henig
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-08-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781500751494
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Based on interviews of Haley's contemporaries, personal correspondence, legal documents, [and] newspaper accounts, Adam Henig investigates the unraveling of one of America's most successful yet enigmatic authors"--Page 4 of cover.
Identifying Roots
Author: Richard Newton
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
Published: 2020-06-16
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781781795477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents a cultural history of Alex Haley's Roots as a case study in 'operational acts of identification.' It examines the strategy and tactics Haley employed in developing a family origin story into an acclaimed national history. Where cultural studies scholars have critiqued notions of sacrosanct 'rootedness,' this book shows the fruit of critically identifying those claims. It reframes the concept of 'roots' as a theoretical vocabulary and grammar for the anthropology of scriptures - a way of parsing the cultural texts that seem to read us back. Identifying Roots invites scholars of religion to reimagine their place in the humans sciences. Theorizing from a tradition of African American interventions in the history of religion, Richard Newton registers the social dramas and dynamic rhetoric that render the cultural logic of scriptures powerful. Creatively marshaling intellectual history, ethnographic autobiography, Close Reading and discourse analysis, Newton enumerates the consequences for signifying people and cultural texts as intrinsically significant. More than an investigation into Alex Haley's legacy, Identifying Roots unearths the politics of beginnings and belongings.
The African
Author: Harold Courlander
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13:
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Author: Matthew F. Delmont
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2016-08-02
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0520291328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Alex HaleyÕs book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976 it became an immediate bestseller. The television series, broadcast by ABC in 1977, became the most popular miniseries of all time, captivating over a hundred million Americans. For the first time, Americans saw slavery as an integral part of the nationÕs history. With a remake of the series in 2016 by A&E Networks, Roots has again entered the national conversation. In Making ÒRoots,Ó Matthew F. Delmont looks at the importance, contradictions, and limitations of mass culture and examines how Roots pushed the boundaries of history. Delmont investigates the decisions that led Alex Haley, Doubleday, and ABC to invest in the story of Kunta Kinte, uncovering how HaleyÕs original, modest book proposal developed into an unprecedented cultural phenomenon.
A Different Kind of Christmas
Author: Alex Haley
Publisher: Gramercy
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780517162699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a very special novel that sparkles with the same memorable writing that made ROOTS an American classic. This is the story of Fletcher Randall, a nineteen-year-old from North Carolina whose politically powerful father is a plantation owner, and, of course, a slave owner. The time is 1855, and all Fletcher Randall knows and believes about slavery he's learned from his father. But Fletcher goes to school up North, and one or two of his Princeton classmates talk about how wrong slavery is until Fletcher begins to think for himself --and he becomes a traitor to his background, to his family, by conspiring to aid in a mass escape of slaves on the Underground Railroad. His partner in this plan is a black slave by the name of Harpin' John, a man who plays the harmonica so sweetly it could make a grown man cry. Christmas Eve is the secret date set for the escape. How these two men of such incredibly opposing backgrounds join together to achieve the goal of freedom makes A Different Kind of Christmas soar with unforgettable inspiration. This is a timeless tale of spiritual regeneration, moral courage, and powerful humanness, meaningful and memorable to readers of all faiths and all ages.
