The past 20 years have witnessed a tremendous accumulation of research in whiteness
studies in general, and in the sociology of whiteness in particular. In contrast to the earliest …

The rapid growth of genetic ancestry testing has brought concerns that these tests will
transform consumers' racial and ethnic identities, producing “geneticized” identities …

Genetic ancestry testing is a billion-dollar industry, with more than 26 million tests sold by
2018, which raises concerns over how it might influence test-takers' understandings of race …

What Brubaker [2016.“The Dolezal Affair: Race, Gender, and the Micropolitics of Identity.”
Ethnic and Racial Studies 39 (3): 414–448] referred to in these pages as “the Dolezal affair” …

Purpose Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic ancestry companies have rapidly increased in
popularity, with top testing services maintaining genetic databases of several million …

ABSTRACT A consensus has developed among social and biological scientists around the
problematic nature of genetic ancestry testing, specifically that its popularity will lead to …

Genetic ancestry testing (GAT) is marketed as a way to make up for missing knowledge
about one's ancestry. Previous research questions the GAT industry's ability to fulfill this …

In the past half century, the Indigenous Australian population has grown at a far faster rate
than can be explained by births alone, and has come to include more western-educated …

Over the past twenty years, DNA ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a
booming international industry that encourages members of the public to answer difficult …

When Americans think about race,“white” is often the furthest thing from their minds. Yet
whiteness colors so much of social life in the United States, from the organization and …