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Adoption Across Race and Nation: Us Histories and Legacies

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Availability:In StockContributor:Silke Hackenesch (Editor)Series:Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and CulturePublish date:2022-11-29Pages:230
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ohio State University PressISBN-13:9780814258576ISBN-10:814258573UPC:9780814258576Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Race & Ethnic Relations, Children's Studies, Emigration & ImmigrationSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SCCTG4S302
Legacies of (un)belonging have historical roots and resonate across quite different contexts of transracial and transnational adoption. In Adoption across Race and Nation activists, adoptees, and scholars across a range of fields--history, childhood studies, cultural anthropology, gender studies, social policy, and more--ask: What are the experiences of dual-heritage adoptees, and how have configurations of kinship, culture, and identity shaped their lives? How have transnationally and transracially adopted children approached their Americanness, their American whiteness, their American Blackness, their Asian Americanness? How do "border crises" turn "adoptable children" into revenue streams for countries, exposing the vulnerability of immigrant families of color? Offering case studies of post-World War II and Cold War adoptions of Black German and Black Korean children, Adoption across Race and Nation probes the intersections of race and nation as well as immigration and citizenship. It thus demonstrates that in the past as well as today, adoption, nation, and race continue to operate as relational categories with immediate effects on normative notions of family and kinship, belonging, the role of the state, and social welfare.

Contributors: Silke Hackenesch, Laura Briggs, Pamela Anne Quiroz, Eleana J. Kim, Kim Park Nelson, Amy E. Traver, Kori A. Graves, Tracey Owens Patton, Rosemarie H. Peña, Peter Selman
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ohio State University PressISBN-13:9780814258576ISBN-10:814258573UPC:9780814258576Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Race & Ethnic Relations, Children's Studies, Emigration & ImmigrationSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SCCTG4S302
Silke Hackenesch is Associate Professor at the Institute of North American History in the Department of History, University of Cologne. She is the author of Chocolate and Blackness: A Cultural History.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press

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