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Title Roots quest : inside America's genealogy boom / Jackie Hogan.
Author Hogan, Jackie, 1967- author.
Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  920 HOG    Check Shelves
 West Oaks  920 HOG    Check Shelves
Description xi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Roots quests: an introduction -- A genealogy of American genealogy -- Roots work: genealogy across cultures -- Memory work in the age of quantum genealogy -- The new blood quantum: genetic genealogy and the creation of kinship -- Who do we think we are? Televised roots quests -- In search of the "living dead": ancestors, zombies, and American roots quests -- Imagined homes: roots tourism and the quest for self -- Our ancestors, ourselves: roots and identity in an age of rootlessness.
Summary "In Roots Quest, sociologist Jackie Hogan digs into our current genealogy boom to ask why we are so interested in our family history. She shows how the surging popularity of genealogy is a response to large-scale social changes, and she explores the way our increasingly rootless society fuels the quest for an elemental sense of belonging--for roots."--Provided by publisher.
Subject Genealogy -- Social aspects -- United States.
Genealogy -- Study and teaching -- United States.
United States -- Genealogy -- History -- 21st century.
Ethnicity -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Group identity -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
National characteristics, American.
ISBN 9781442274563 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) : $34.00
1442274565 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 40028872176
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