Sankofa, or “Go Back and Fetch It”: Merging Genealogy and Africana Studies—An Introduction

Abstract

With the overwhelming popularity of genealogy-themed television series, genetic genealogy testing, online subscription services for research, and the enduring aphorism of Sankofa, people of African descent are consistently dispelling the long-avowed assertion that the ancestry of the enslaved in the United States and their descendants is, for the most part, unknowable. [...]

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