Additional Resources for Roots by Alex Haley

This Study Guide consists of approximately 101 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Roots.

Additional Resources for Roots by Alex Haley

This Study Guide consists of approximately 101 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Roots.
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Russell Adams, "An Analysis of the Roots Phenomenon in the Context of American Racial Conservatism," in Presence Africame, Vol. 116, No 4, pp. 125-40

This article explores the factors that contnbuted to the success of Roots.

Helen Davis Othow, "Roots and the Heroic Search for Identity," m CLA Journal, Vol XXVI, No 3, March, 1983, pp 311-24

Chavis describes Haley's book as the embodiment of the "feverish search for meaning in an alien universe."

Elizabeth Stone, Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins- How Our Family Stories Shape Us, Penguin, 1989, 254 p

Stone interviews one hundred people and records their family histones.

Tomrnie Morton Young, in Afro American Genealogy

Sourcebook, Afragenda, 1998, 199 p Young provides a multitude of genealogical resources for those interested m exploring their own genealogy.

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