![]() ![]() “Yet, I was amazed at the vividness with which that same material came across on that screen. Michael Winston of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University. “I have been working with the documents on which much of ‘Roots’ was based for my life,” said Prof. A black historian recently commented about his own long years of study of African and Afro-American subjects. As to the technology, it is enough to note the awesome power of television. The explanation, we suspect, has much to do with a coincidence of timing and technology. But there is more, obviously, to the rage for “Roots” than the magnitude of Mr. In tracing his family back seven generations to his African ancestor, Kunta Kinte, Alex Haley has performed an act of genealogical research that had been presumed to be impossible. Quite apart from the television adaptation, the book is a tour de force. ![]() We would begin with the quality and the character of the work. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |