Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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Title: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Year: 1995/2004
471 pages

Obama's autobiography to 1995. It's a little dry at times, though all of the content is interesting. Since he wrote it before his presidential bid, it's much less guarded/sanitized than it could have been if written later. He describes a lot of the phenomena associated with being black or multiracial in the U.S., and some of the ways that colonialism affected Africans. I could see teaching with it in a graduate diversity course.