Alternate Roots: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Genealogy Media
Christine Scodari, "Alternate Roots: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Genealogy Media "
English | ISBN: 1496828224 | 2020 | 176 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1496828224 | 2020 | 176 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
In recent years, the media has attributed the increasing numbers of people producing family trees to the aging of baby boomers, a sense of mortality, a proliferation of internet genealogy sites, and a growing pride in ethnicity. A spate of new genealogy-themed television series and internet-driven genetic ancestry testing services have now emerged, capitalizing on the mapping of the human genome in 2003. This genealogical trend poses a need for critical analysis, particularly along the lines of race and ethnicity.
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