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The Social Life of DNA de Alondra Nelson

The Social Life of DNA

Autor Alondra Nelson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 sep 2017
The unexpected story of how genetic testing is affecting race in America
We know DNA is a master key that unlocks medical and forensic secrets, but its genealogical life is both revelatory and endlessly fascinating. Tracing genealogy is now the second-most popular hobby amongst Americans, as well as the second-most visited online category. This billion-dollar industry has spawned popular television shows, websites, and Internet communities, and a booming heritage tourism circuit.
The tsunami of interest in genetic ancestry tracing from the African American community has been especially overwhelming. In "The Social Life of DNA," Alondra Nelson takes us on an unprecedented journey into how the double helix has wound its way into the heart of the most urgent contemporary social issues around race.
For over a decade, Nelson has deeply studied this phenomenon. Artfully weaving together keenly observed interactions with root-seekers alongside illuminating historical details and revealing personal narrative, she shows that genetic genealogy is a new tool for addressing old and enduring issues. In "The Social Life of DNA," she explains how these cutting-edge DNA-based techniques are being used in myriad ways, including grappling with the unfinished business of slavery: to foster reconciliation, to establish ties with African ancestral homelands, to rethink and sometimes alter citizenship, and to make legal claims for slavery reparations specifically based on ancestry.
Nelson incisively shows that DNA is a portal to the past that yields insight for the present and future, shining a light on social traumas and historical injustices that still resonate today. Science can be a crucial ally to activism to spur social change and transform twenty-first-century racial politics. But Nelson warns her readers to be discerning: for the social repair we seek can t be found in even the most sophisticated science. Engrossing and highly original, "The Social Life of DNA" is a must-read for anyone interested in race, science, history and how our reckoning with the past may help us to chart a more just course for tomorrow.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780807027189
ISBN-10: 0807027189
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Beacon Press

Notă biografică

Alondra Nelson is Dean of Social Science and professor of sociology and gender studies at Columbia University. She is author of the award-winning book Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Science, Boston Globe, and the Guardian. She lives in New York City.

Cuprins

Preface

Introduction

ONE: Reconciliation Projects

TWO: Ground Work

THREE: Game Changer

FOUR: The Pursuit of African Ancestry

FIVE: Roots Revelations

SIX: Acts of Reparations

SEVEN: The Rosa Parks of the Reparations Litigation Movement

EIGHT: DNA Diasporas

NINE: Racial Politics After the Genome

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index