Permanent markers : race, ancestry, and the body after the genome / Sarah Abel. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abel, Sarah (Cultural anthropologist), author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genetic genealogy--Social aspects--United States.

Genetic genealogy.

Genetic genealogy--Social aspects--Brazil.

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

Slavery--Brazil--History.

Race--Social aspects--United States.

Race.

Race--Social aspects--Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]

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.

Contents:

The world in our DNA

Geno-myths

The geneticist's dilemma

Technologies of the self

Marked bodies

Essential origins

Historically modified organisms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 26, 2023).

Previously issued in print: 2021.

Other Format:

Print version: Abel, Sarah Permanent Markers

ISBN:

979-88-908609-3-4

1-4696-6517-4

OCLC:

1289444107