The social life of DNA : race, reparations, and reconciliation after the genome /
By: Nelson, Alondra [author.].
Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, 2016Description: xiii, 200 pages ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780807033012 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780807033012:; 0807033014 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780807027189; 0807027189.Subject(s): African Americans -- Race identity | African Americans -- History | Genetics -- Social aspects -- United States | Genealogy -- Social aspects -- United States | Genomics -- Social aspects -- United States | Sociogenomics -- United StatesDDC classification: 305.896073 NELItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-192) and index.
Introduction -- Reconciliation projects -- Ground work -- Game changer -- The pursuit of African ancestry -- Roots revelations -- Acts of reparation -- The Rosa Parks of the reparation litigation movement -- DNA diasporas -- Racial politics after the genome.
After personally and professionally delving into the genealogy phenomenon for more than a decade, Alondra Nelson realized that genetic testing is being used to grapple with the unfinished business of slavery. It is being used for reconciliation, to establish ties with African ancestral homelands, to rethink citizenship, and to make unprecedented legal claims for slavery reparations based on genetic ancestry. Arguing that DNA offers a new tool for enduring issues, Nelson shows that the social life of DNA is affecting and transforming twenty-first-century racial politics.