{"id":49537,"date":"2016-10-20T01:04:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T01:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49537"},"modified":"2016-10-26T19:36:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T19:36:13","slug":"dna-tests-show-fallacy-of-jim-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49537","title":{"rendered":"DNA tests show fallacy of Jim Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"

DNA tests show fallacy of Jim Crow<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Albuquerque Journal<\/a>
\n2014-03-21<\/p>\n

Henry Louis Gates Jr.<\/strong><\/a>, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
\nHarvard University<\/em><\/p>\n

I am filming guest interviews for Season 2 of the genealogy series \u201cFinding Your Roots<\/a>,\u201d airing on PBS<\/a> this September. One of the most intriguing pieces of information shared with our guests is the \u201cadmixture\u201d results contained in their DNA<\/a> \u2013 their percentages of European, Native American and sub-Saharan African ancestors over the past 200 years or so.<\/p>\n

The record of your ancestral past, in all of its complexity, is hidden in your autosomal DNA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

African-Americans almost always guess that they have much higher percentages of Native American ancestry and much lower percentages of European ancestry than they have. That is not surprising since African-Americans have long embraced the myth that their great-grandmother with \u201chigh cheeks and straight black hair\u201d looked that way because of a relationship between an ancestor who was black and another one who was Native American.<\/p>\n

But scientific results show that very few African-Americans have a significant amount of Native American ancestry: In fact, according to a study just published by 23andMe<\/a> researcher Katarzyna \u201cKasia\u201d Bryc<\/a>, only about 5 percent of African-Americans have at least 2 percent of Native American ancestry, while the average African-American has only 0.7 percent Native American ancestry…<\/p>\n

At the same time, Bryc\u2019s research shows that the average African-American has a whopping 24 percent of European ancestry, which explains why great-grandma had those high cheekbones and that straight black hair.<\/p>\n

But what about the presence of recent African ancestors in a \u201cwhite\u201d person\u2019s family tree?…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DNA tests show fallacy of Jim Crow The Albuquerque Journal 2014-03-21 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University I am filming guest interviews for Season 2 of the genealogy series \u201cFinding Your Roots,\u201d airing on PBS this September. One of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,459,8,6462,20],"tags":[25263,2935,25262],"class_list":["post-49537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-albuquerque-journal","tag-henry-louis-gates-jr","tag-the-albuquerque-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49540,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49537\/revisions\/49540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}