Roots quest : inside America's genealogy boom / Jackie Hogan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogan, Jackie, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genealogy--Social aspects--United States.

Genealogy.

Genealogy--Study and teaching--United States.

Group identity.

History.

Ethnicity.

Genealogy--Study and teaching.

Genealogy--Social aspects.

United States--Genealogy--History--21st century.

United States.

Ethnicity--United States--History--21st century.

Group identity--United States--History--21st century.

National characteristics, American.

Genre:

Genealogy.

History.

Physical Description:

222 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Understanding America's genealogy boom

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]

Summary:

"In Roots Quest, sociologist Jackie Hogan digs into our current genealogy boom to ask why we are so interested in our family history. She shows how the surging popularity of genealogy is a response to large-scale social changes, and she explores the way our increasingly rootless society fuels the quest for an elemental sense of belonging--for roots."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Roots quests: an introduction

A genealogy of American genealogy

Roots work: genealogy across cultures

Memory work in the age of quantum genealogy

The new blood quantum: genetic genealogy and the creation of kinship

Who do we think we are? Televised roots quests

In search of the "living dead": ancestors, zombies, and American roots quests

Imagined homes: roots tourism and the quest for self

Our ancestors, ourselves: roots and identity in an age of rootlessness.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hogan, Jackie, 1967- Roots quest.

ISBN:

9781442274563

1442274565

OCLC:

1044777552