a story of race and inheritance Obama, Barack. creator text biography nyu New York Three Rivers Press c2004 2004 Rev. ed. monographic eng

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xvii, 442 p. ; 21 cm. "[I]n New York ... 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. Barack Obama. n-us--- Obama, Barack African Americans Biography Racially mixed people United States Biography Racism United States United States Race relations E185.97.O23 A3 2004 973/.0405967625013/092 B 1400082773 (pbk.) 2004012412 DLC 990825 20250709141807.0