Race, Genetics, History - New Practices, New Approaches

This Element, about historical practice and genetics, seeks to understand what is at stake in presenting, preserving, and articulating the past in the present. Historical practice is both conceptual and material, a consonance of approach which is reflected in the innovative and non-traditional format of the Element itself - not simply in its length, but its constitution. The Element was created collaboratively with contributions from a range of disciplines, backgrounds, and areas of professional expertise. It consists of a series of interventions which are then discussed by the contributors and is foundationally multi-voiced and discursive. The Element attempts to be non-extractive, ethical, inclusive, collaborative, and constantly ongoing and provisional in its representation. The Element strives to contribute to ongoing attempts to rethink, reconfigure, reassess, and entirely change the object of study and the practice of history.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Jerome de Groot: DNA reconfiguring knowledge structures; 2. Maya Sharma: how the UK heritage sector could take a more ethical and anti-racist approach to our collective histories; 3. Lara Choksey: composite genomic portraits; 4. Alexandra Alberda and Njabulo Chipangura: towards the Rehumanisation of ancestors from colonial contexts at Manchester Museum; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Alexandra P Alberda, Alexandra P. Alberda, Njabulo Chipangura, Lara Choksey, Choksey Lara, Jerome De Groot, Groot Jerome de, Maya Sharma
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.11.2025
• EAN: 9781009635370
• ISBN: 978-1-009-63537-0
• Weight: 250 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Elements in Historical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Historiography, Historiography, Social discrimination & inequality, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Genetics (non-medical), Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism