TY - BOOK AU - Obama,Barack TI - Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance SN - 9781400082773 AV - E185.97.O23 A3 2004 U1 - 973/.0405967625009/0092B 22 KW - Obama, Barack. KW - African Americans KW - Biography KW - Racially mixed people KW - United States KW - Racism KW - Noirs am�ericains KW - Biographies KW - Racisme KW - �Etats-Unis KW - fast KW - Race relations KW - Relations raciales N1 - See Reference Desk for Bookclub books; Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. With new introd. and text from keynote address to the Democratic Convention, 2004 N2 - 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 UR - https://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/DECRead?standardNoType=1&standardNo=1400082773&sessionid=0&srcdbname=worldcat&key=e3f1ddfef657ff2e934dd2ab115108248eb453422471ab16d315ee337893b67d&ectype=MOREINFO UR - https://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/DCARead?standardNoType=1&standardNo=1400082773:srcdbname=worldcat:fromExternal=true&sessionid=0 UR - https://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/DECRead?standardNoType=1&standardNo=1400082773&sessionid=0&srcdbname=worldcat&key=e3f1ddfef657ff2e934dd2ab115108248eb453422471ab16d315ee337893b67d&ectype=EXCERPT ER -