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Finding your roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Season 2, Episode 10, Decoding our past / director/producers: Phil Bertelsen, Josh Gleason, Hazel Gurland-Pooler, Muriel Soenens, Sabin Streeter, Jesse Sweet.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alba, Jessica, 1981-.
- Alba, Jessica.
- Patrick, Deval.
- Celebrities--United States--Genealogy.
- Celebrities.
- Genealogy.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (56 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Arlington, VA : Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2014.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Deval Patrick is the first African American Governor of Massachusetts, and Jessica Alba is an actress who proudly embraces her Mexican American heritage. But cutting edge DNA analysis reveals that their family trees in fact contain a far more diverse range of cultures and races. Jessica Alba descends from, Jewish ancestors, Mayans and the official cartographer of France's King Louis the 14th. Deval Patrick's roots lead to a black homesteader in Colorado and a white master who gave his former slave land after the Civil War. We also use DNA to delve deeper into the families of other guests from the series including Valerie Jarrett, Anderson Cooper and to overcome dead ends on host Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s own tree. The secrets encoded in their genomes challenge these guests' ideas about their families' histories and their identities today.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed August 13, 2015).
- OCLC:
- 919205507
- Publisher Number:
- ASP2804326/marc
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