Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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Author: Barack Obama
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2004-08-10
ISBN: 1400082773
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Three Rivers Press

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Book Review: His being a racist shows clearly in this book.
Summary: 1 Stars

"Crackers" is as insulting to me as the N-word that we're NOT allowed to say on here, is to them.

And for him to refer to his grandmother as a "typical white woman??" what's that about? cuz he's a "typical mulatto?"

Summary of Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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.

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