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Permanent Markers
Sarah Abel
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
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&8239;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. Reckoning with the struggles of science versus capitalism, "race-blind" versus "race-positive" public policies, and identity fluidity versus embodied experiences of racism,
Permanent Markers seeks to explain why societies that have broadly embraced the social construction of race continue to search for, and find, evidence that our bodies are indelibly marked by the past.
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mestiçagem, science and technology studies, CANDELA, color line, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, DNA ancestry testing, biocultural theories of race, histories and legacies of transatlantic slavery, AncestryDNA, genetic ancestry, African diaspora studies, kinship links, comparative studies of Brazil and the United States, genomics, root-seeking, African Ancestry, genetic genealogy, ethnic identities, racial markers, racial mixture, racism and anti-racism, racialization and the body, concepts of blackness, family history, scientific racism, social constructionist theories of identity, concepts of whiteness