Roots: The Story of an American Family (For Further Study)

For Further Study

• Russell Adams, "An Analysis of the Roots Phenomenon in the Context of American Racial Conservatism," in Presence Africaine, Vol. 116, No. 4, pp. 125-40.

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

• Helen Davis Othow, "Roots and the Heroic Search for Identity," in 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 histories.

• Tommie Morton Young, in Afro American Genealogy Sourcebook, Afragenda, 1998, 199 p.

  Young provides a multitude of genealogical resources for those interested in exploring their own genealogy.