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Permanent markers : race, ancestry, and the body after the genome / created by Sarah Abel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781469665146
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • CS21.3 ABE
Contents:
The world in our DNA -- Geno-myths -- The geneticist's dilemma -- Technologies of the self -- Marked bodies -- Essential origins -- Historically modified organisms.
Summary: "Over the past twenty years, DNA ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a booming international industry that encourages members of the public to answer difficult questions about their identity by looking to the genome. At a time of intensified interest in issues of race and racism, the burgeoning influence of corporations like AncestryDNA and 23andMe has sparked debates about the commodification of identity, the antiracist potential of genetic science, and the promises and pitfalls of using DNA as a source of 'objective' knowledge about the past. This book engages these debates by looking at the ways genomic ancestry testing has been used in Brazil and the United States to address the histories and legacies of slavery, from personal genealogical projects to collective racial politics"--
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Book Book Main Library Open Shelf CS21.3 ABE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 158711 Available BK146368

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The world in our DNA -- Geno-myths -- The geneticist's dilemma -- Technologies of the self -- Marked bodies -- Essential origins -- Historically modified organisms.

"Over the past twenty years, DNA ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a booming international industry that encourages members of the public to answer difficult questions about their identity by looking to the genome. At a time of intensified interest in issues of race and racism, the burgeoning influence of corporations like AncestryDNA and 23andMe has sparked debates about the commodification of identity, the antiracist potential of genetic science, and the promises and pitfalls of using DNA as a source of 'objective' knowledge about the past. This book engages these debates by looking at the ways genomic ancestry testing has been used in Brazil and the United States to address the histories and legacies of slavery, from personal genealogical projects to collective racial politics"--

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