{"id":6352,"date":"2017-08-17T15:33:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6352"},"modified":"2017-08-17T15:33:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T20:33:15","slug":"white-supremacy-not-so-white-ancestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2017\/08\/17\/white-supremacy-not-so-white-ancestry\/","title":{"rendered":"White Supremacy, Not-So-White Ancestry"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6353\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thenickster\/22770595760\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6353 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2017\/08\/22770595760_40bcffd66a_z-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2017\/08\/22770595760_40bcffd66a_z-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2017\/08\/22770595760_40bcffd66a_z-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2017\/08\/22770595760_40bcffd66a_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Nicki Dugan Pogue, Flickr CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Companies like Ancestry.com use DNA samples to educate people about their genetic ancestry. This relatively new service is used by a growing number of people, and a recent article on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/08\/16\/white-nationalists-genetic-ancestry-test\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">STAT<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> explains how has caused some uncomfortable moments for white supremacists who learn of their non-white ancestry. The article covers research by\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/socgen.ucla.edu\/people\/aaron-panofsky\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aaron Panofsky<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/joandonovan.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joan Donovan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who studied posts on Stormfront, a white nationalist website, wherein users discuss their genetic ancestry results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While one might assume that white nationalists would avoid posting their non-white ancestry online, Panofsky and Donovan found that members of Stormfront are quick to support each other in the face of genetic testing results which show non-white heritage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Instead of rejecting members who get contrary results, Donovan said, the conversations are &#8216;overwhelmingly&#8217; focused on helping the person to rethink the validity of the genetic test. And some of those critiques \u2014 while emerging from deep-seated racism \u2014 are close to scientists\u2019 own qualms about commercial genetic ancestry testing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Users discuss the potential failings of genetic testing, or posit that individual knowledge of one\u2019s history is more useful than some findings in a remote laboratory. In other cases, individuals were told that they could remain in Stormfront so long as they didn\u2019t \u201cmate\u201d and spread their non-white genes, and others even claimed that a sprinkling of non-white ancestry bolstered the community\u2019s &#8220;diversity&#8221;. In sum, though genetic ancestry testing undermines the narratives that white supremacists utilize, users on Stormfront are negotiating their community boundaries with each new genetic test, and &#8220;rethinking who counts as white&#8221; in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies like Ancestry.com use DNA samples to educate people about their genetic ancestry. This relatively new service is used by a growing number of people, and a recent article on STAT explains how has caused some uncomfortable moments for white supremacists who learn of their non-white ancestry. The article covers research by\u00a0Aaron Panofsky\u00a0 and Joan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[96195,39110,39111,96194,4291],"class_list":["post-6352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inequality","category-race","tag-ancestry-test","tag-inequality","tag-race","tag-white-national","tag-white-supremacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6354,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions\/6354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}