A nation of descendants: politics and the practice of genealogy in U.S. history

Introduction --

pt. I Arguments about exclusion before the 1960s --

I could love them, too : genealogy practices and white supremacy --

Yours, for the dead : Mormonism's linking of genealogy with worship --

Hereditary greatness : early genealogical efforts among Native Americans, African Americans, and American Jews --

pt. II Arguments about inclusion : spectacle and commerce --

There has not been such a book : precedents for Alex Haley's Roots after 1945 --

Diversification and discontentment : Roots (1976-1977) and its afterlives --

Genealogy for hire and for profit --

Chosen kin versus genetic fetishism : the traffic in genealogy-driven DNA testing since 1998

Epilogue.