Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.
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Archie Moore is the first Australian to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, given to the best national pavilion at the world’s oldest and most renowned art biennale.
How to prove you’re descended from royalty.
Understanding how our ancestors may have benefited from industrialisation and colonialism could help us become more climate-friendly citizens.
How we’re linking together genetic material from thousands of people - modern and ancient - to trace our ancestors and the history of our evolution.
DNA testing is helping reveal people’s unknown royal ancestry.
The current craze to search for our ancestry is complicated and paradoxical. We want to know we are connected – yet we crave to be unique. Moral white panic is also involved and so is big business.
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Professor of English, York University, Canada
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Teaching Fellow, Department of Genealogical Studies, University of Strathclyde
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Aberystwyth University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistical and Population Genetics at the Broad Institute, Harvard University
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Associate Professor, Art History, Education and Visual Culture, Southern Cross University
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Principal Tutor, Postgraduate Programme in Genealogical Studies, University of Strathclyde
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Professor of Genetics and Public Engagement, University of Leicester
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Researcher in Evolutionary Genetics, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of French Studies, Tulane University