Permanent Markers
Race, Ancestry, and the Body after the Genome
By Sarah Abel
272 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 9 halftones
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6515-3
Published: January 2022 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6514-6
Published: January 2022 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-6516-0
Published: December 2021
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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 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.
About the Author
Sarah Abel is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre of Latin American Studies.
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“Engaging, intriguing, and beautifully written, this book will be of major interest to specialists and to other readers in the social sciences and humanities. It gives profound and cutting-edge insights into the impact of genomic technologies on people’s ideas about human diversity, identity, and history.”—Peter Wade, author of Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom: Genomics, Multiculturalism, and Race in Latin America
“Accessible and nuanced, this book delivers much-needed insight into the social impact of the growth of the direct-to-consumer genetic testing market. It captures a unique snapshot in time of how genetic technologies have the power (or not) to alter the ways in which people understand and experience the world.”—Jada Benn Torres, co-author of Genetic Ancestry: Our Stories, Our Pasts