{"id":59307,"date":"2019-12-01T00:52:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T00:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59307"},"modified":"2019-12-01T00:52:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T00:52:14","slug":"genetic-options-the-impact-of-genetic-ancestry-testing-on-consumers-racial-and-ethnic-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59307","title":{"rendered":"Genetic Options: The Impact of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Consumers\u2019 Racial and Ethnic Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1086\/697487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Genetic Options: The Impact of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Consumers\u2019 Racial and Ethnic Identities<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/toc\/ajs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Journal of Sociology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/toc\/ajs\/2018\/124\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 124, Number 1 (July 2018)<\/a><br \/>\npages 150-184<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1086\/697487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1086\/697487<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.sas.upenn.edu\/people\/wendy-roth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wendy D. Roth<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oru.se\/english\/employee\/biorn_ivemark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Biorn Ivemark<\/strong><\/a>, Postdoctoral Researcher<br \/>\nSchool of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences<br \/>\n<em>\u00d6rebro University, \u00d6rebro, Sweden<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1086\/697487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/\/na101\/home\/literatum\/publisher\/uchicago\/journals\/content\/ajs\/2018\/ajs.2018.124.issue-1\/ajs.2018.124.issue-1\/20180627\/ajs.2018.124.issue-1.cover.gif\" alt=\"Publication Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rapid growth of genetic ancestry testing has brought concerns that these tests will transform consumers\u2019 racial and ethnic identities, producing \u201cgeneticized\u201d identities determined by genetic knowledge. Drawing on 100 qualitative interviews with white, black, Hispanic\/Latino, Asian, and Native Americans, the authors develop the genetic options theory to account for how genetic ancestry tests influence consumers\u2019 ethnic and racial identities. The theory maintains that consumers do not accept the tests\u2019 results as given but choose selectively from the estimates according to two mechanisms: their identity aspirations and social appraisals. Yet consumers\u2019 prior racialization also influences their identity aspirations; white respondents aspired to new identities more readily and in substantively different ways. The authors\u2019 findings suggest that genetic ancestry testing can reinforce race privilege among those who already experience it.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/full\/10.1086\/697487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing on 100 qualitative interviews with white, black, Hispanic\/Latino, Asian, and Native Americans, the authors develop the genetic options theory to account for how genetic ancestry tests influence consumers\u2019 ethnic and racial identities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,125,8,394,20],"tags":[440,30549,2419,8858],"class_list":["post-59307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-american-journal-of-sociology","tag-biorn-ivemark","tag-wendy-d-roth","tag-wendy-roth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59307","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=59307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59308,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59307\/revisions\/59308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}