Description
This book 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 those of us in societies that have broadly embraced the social construction of race continue to search for, and find, evidence that our bodies are marked permanently by the past.
About the Author
Sarah Abel is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Centre of Latin American Studies.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469665153
Author Sarah Abel
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Weight(grams) 452g
Dimensions(mm) 233mm * 155mm * 15mm