Alternate Roots: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Genealogy Media

by Christine Scodari

Book Overview

In recent years, the media has attributed the increasing numbers of people producing family trees to the aging of baby boomers, a sense of mortality, a proliferation of internet genealogy sites, and a growing pride in ethnicity. A spate of new genealogy-themed television series and internet-driven genetic ancestry testing services have now emerged, capitalizing on the mapping of the human genome in 2003. This genealogical trend poses a need for critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496828224
• ISBN13: 9781496828224
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"