CRITICISM

Allen, Robert L. “The Black Scholar Interviews: Alex Haley.” Black Scholar 8, no. 1 (1976): 33-40.

Alex Haley talks about his parents, his upbringing, and his works, including the best-selling Roots and the mini-series to be based on the book.

Baldwin, James. “How One Black Man Came to be an American.” New York Times Book Review (26 September 1976): 1, 2.

Offers an appraisal of Haley's Roots.

Baye, Betty Winston. “Alex Haley's Roots Revisited.” Essence 22, no. 10 (February 1992): 88-92.

Illustrated article profiling the author of Roots.

Courlander, Harold. “Kunta Kinte's Struggle to be African.” PHYLON: A Review of Race and Culture 47, no. 4 (December 1986): 294-302.

Examines the believability and “African-ness” of Kunta Kinte, central figure of Roots.

Hareven, Tamara K. “The Search for Generational Memory: Tribal Rites in Industrial Society.” Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 107, no. 4 (fall 1978): 137-49.

Roots is discussed as a cultural impetus for tracing genealogies and pursuing generational memory.

Rein, Martin, and Jeffrey M. Elliot. “Roots: A New Approach to Teaching Black History.” Negro History Bulletin 40 (1977): 664-67.

Describes a black history course developed by Miami-Dade Community College based on Haley's Roots.

Additional coverage of Haley's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 26; Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography and Resources, Vol. 2; Black Literature Criticism, Ed. 2; Black Writers, Eds. 2, 3; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 77-80, 136; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 61; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 8, 12, 76; Contemporary Popular Writers; Contemporary Southern Writers; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 38; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors, Multicultural, and Popular Fiction and Genre Authors; DISCovering Authors 3.0; Literature and Its Times, Vol. 5; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; and Novels for Students, Vol. 9.