TY - BOOK AU - Obama,Barack TI - Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance SN - 9780307383419 AV - E185.97.O23 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Crown Publishers KW - Obama, Barack. KW - African Americans KW - Biography KW - Racially mixed people KW - United States KW - Racism KW - Race relations N1 - Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995. Subsequently published in pbk. with preface and keynote address: New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004. This edition appears without keynote address. Cf. T.p. verso; Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995 N2 - Barack Obama, the son of a black African father and a white American mother, traces his history in order to find a workable meaning to his life as a black American. Starting in New York, inspired by the sudden death of his father, he continues to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, finally tracing his African side of the family to Kenya and reconciling his divided inheritance ER -