Reconsidering roots: race, politics, and memory

Foreword / by Henry Louis Gates Jr

Introduction / Erica L. Ball and Kellie Carter Jackson

Rethinking the context. Roots, the legacy of slavery, and civil rights backlash in 1970s America / Clare Corbould

The politics of plagiarism: Roots, Margaret Walker, and Alex Haley / Tyler D. Parry

"My furthest-back person": black genealogy before and after Roots / Francesca Morgan

Rereading roots. Roots of violence: race, power, and manhood in Roots / Delia Mellis

The roots of African American labor struggles: reading Roots and Backstairs at the White House in a 1970s storytelling tradition / Elise Chatelain

Letting America off the hook: Roots, Django unchained, and the divided white self / Richard King and David J. Leonard

The black military image in Roots: the next generations / Robert K. Chester

Rerouting Roots. The same, but a step removed: aspects of the British reception of Roots / Martin Stollery

Re-rooting Roots: the South African perspective / Norvella P. Carter, Warren Chalklen, and Bhekuyise Zungu

One man's quest: Chiang Ssu-chang, Roots, and the mainlander homebound movement in Taiwan / Dominic Meng-hsuan Yang.