![]() ![]() In 2014, Newton’s fascination with her own genealogy fueled a magazine article she published in Harper’s magazine about America’s ancestry craze. Aided, and sometimes hindered, by the big-tech DNA platforms and genealogical firms, Newton wrote a blog in the early 2000s that explored some of the issues as she toiled at a day job. Raised by a racist white father, and a white mother she believed was “not racist,” Newton wanted to know where these people came from and how to reckon with a familial past rooted in white supremacy. ![]() More than that, she wants to know how those ancestors continue to shape her life in the present. Growing up in Miami, with kin scattered across Texas and the Mississippi Delta, writer and critic Maud Newton felt the pull of trying to find out who, exactly, her ancestors were. ![]()
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