Claiming others : transracial adoption and national belonging /
"Transracial adoption has recently become a hotly contested subject of contemporary and critical concern, with scholars across the disciplines working to unravel its complex implications. In Claiming Others, Mark C. Jerng traces the practice of adoption to the early nineteenth century, revealin...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Transracial adoption and the reproduction of personhood
- On the borders of kinship
- Competing logics of possession : unredeemed captives in the 1820s
- Unmanageable attachments : slavery, abolition, and the transformation of kinship
- The character of race : individuation and the institutionalization of adoption
- Between rights and needs
- The right to belong : legal norms, cultural origins, and adoptee identity
- Resisting recognition : narrating transracial adoptees as subjects
- Making family "look like real" : transracial adoption and the challenge to family.