Title Roots quest : inside America's genealogy boom / Jackie Hogan.

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Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]

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Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction	929.1 HOGAN	Check Shelf
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New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction	929.1 HOG	Check Shelf

Description	222 pages ; 24 cm
Note	Includes index.
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.
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.
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.
	Ethnicity. (OCoLC)fst00916034
	Genealogy. (OCoLC)fst00939652
	Genealogy -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00939682
	Genealogy -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst00939687
	Group identity. (OCoLC)fst00948442
	National characteristics, American. (OCoLC)fst01033342
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	2000-2099
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title	Understanding America's genealogy boom
Other Form:	Online version: Hogan, Jackie, 1967- Roots quest. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018] 9781442274570 (DLC) 2018033861
ISBN	9781442274563 (hardcover ;) (alk. paper)
	1442274565 (hardcover ;) (alk. paper)

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