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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogan, Jackie, 1967- author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity.

Genealogy.

Genealogy--Study and teaching.

Group identity.

National characteristics, American.

Genealogy--Social aspects.

Genealogy--Study and teaching--United States.

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

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

Genealogy--Social aspects--United States.

United States.

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

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2019.

Other Title:

Understanding America's genealogy boom

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 05, 2019).

ISBN:

979-82-16-42014-9

1-4422-7457-3

OCLC:

1044776003