A nation of descendants : politics and the practice of genealogy in U.S. history /
"Contending that the U.S. was the earliest western country to embrace genealogy on a mass level, Francesca Morgan traces Americans' fascination with tracking family lineage from the early republic to the present day, showing how it evolved from a largely elite phenomenon practiced by white...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- pt. I Arguments about exclusion before the 1960s
- I could love them, too : genealogy practices and white supremacy
- Yours, for the dead : Mormonism's linking of genealogy with worship
- Hereditary greatness : early genealogical efforts among Native Americans, African Americans, and American Jews
- pt. II Arguments about inclusion : spectacle and commerce
- There has not been such a book : precedents for Alex Haley's Roots after 1945
- Diversification and discontentment : Roots (1976-1977) and its afterlives
- Genealogy for hire and for profit
- Chosen kin versus genetic fetishism : the traffic in genealogy-driven DNA testing since 1998
- Epilogue.