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Alternate Roots - Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Genealogy Media (Hardcover)
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Alternate Roots - Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Genealogy Media (Hardcover)
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series
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In recent years, the media has attributed the surge of people
eagerly studying family trees to the aging of baby boomers, a sense
of mortality, a proliferation of internet genealogy sites, and a
growing pride in ethnicity. New genealogy-themed television series
and internet-driven genetic ancestry testing services have also
flourished, capitalizing on this new popularity and on the mapping
of the human genome. But what's really happening here, and what
does this mean for sometimes volatile conceptions of race and
ethnicity? In Alternate Roots, Christine Scodari engages with
genealogical texts and practices, such as the classic television
miniseries Roots, DNA testing for genetic ancestry, Ancestry.com,
and genealogy-related television series, including those shows
hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. She lays out how family historians
can understand intersections and historical and ongoing relations
of power related to the ethnicity, race, class, and/or gender of
their ancestors as well as to members of other groups. Perspectives
on hybridity and intersectionality make connections not only
between and among identities, but also between local findings and
broader contexts that might, given only cursory attention, seem
tangential to chronicling a family history. Given the
genealogy-related media institutions, tools, texts, practices, and
technologies currently available, Scodari's study probes the
viability of a critical genealogy based upon race, ethnicity, and
intersectional identities. She delves into the implications of
adoption, orientation, and migration while also investigating her
own Italian and Italian American ancestry, examining the racial,
ethnic experiences of her forebears and positioning them within
larger contexts. Filling gaps in the research on genealogical media
in relation to race and ethnicity, Scodari mobilizes cultural
studies, media studies, and her own genealogical practices in a
critical pursuit to interrogate key issues bound up in the creation
of family history.
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