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genealogy
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ge·ne·al·o·gy (jn-l-j, -l-, jn-)
n.
1. A record or table of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; a family tree.
2. The study or investigation of ancestry and family histories.
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While some could argue that Dove's rewrite of African American origins participates in what Anthony Appiah has termed "alternative genealogizing," writing different versions of origins that don't change where we end up, Dove's text seems to believe, insofar as it follows a psychoanalytic project, that this expression of a repressed origin frees us from a symptomology of racial binarism.
"When the pear blossoms / cast their pale faces on / the darker face ... by Pereira, Malin / African American Review
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