More African-Americans Are Learning Their Roots With Genetic Testing
NPRMore African-Americans Are Learning Their Roots With Genetic Testing Tracing your genealogy has become a popular hobby in the United States. Sponsor Message The Social Life of DNA Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome By Alondra Nelson Purchase BookPurchase close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Author and Columbia sociology professor Alondra Nelson's new book The Social Life Of DNA looks at the interest in genetic ancestry tracing from the African-American community. In an interview with NPR's Michel Martin, Nelson considers how this technology is changing the way many African-Americans see themselves and their place in the American story. But it was actually more meaningful to my mother, who right away – like so many of the people that I interviewed in my book — within I would say, within a couple of weeks my mother calls and says "I met a lady from Cameroon at church and she's Bamileke," and then she was at the dinner table – this was a few years ago.
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