Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption [electronic resource] /
Treitler, Vilna Bashi.author.
Bashi Treitler, Vilna.
When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal with issues of difference in adoption? This volume engages writers from both sides of the Atlantic to take a close look at these issues.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Series Editors' Preface; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Race Is a Fiction ... Coloring Children and Parents Nonetheless; What race is, and what race is not; Race and adoption; Adoption as an index of vulnerability; Transnational adoption begins in a racialized climate; Aboriginals of the Americas and Australia; African American children, available and largely unadopted; A racialized market for 'Available' children; Adoptions as case studies in racialization; Shaping desire across adoption's color line
Colorblindness and race-awareness in adoptionWhy we must talk about race in adoption, and outside of it; Notes; Part I Constructing Desire in the Adoption Market; 2 Disability Is the New Black: The Rise of the 'Cleft Lip and Palate Program' in Transracial International Adoption; Introduction: the changing landscape of international adoption; The study; Findings; The popularity of international adoption: healthy infants; 'Our challenge for the future': making the age/race/health comparison in adoption; 'A normal life': minor and correctable medical conditions
'The Cleft Lip and Palate Program' in ChinaConclusion; Note; 3 Race and Market Values in Domestic Infant Adoption; Introduction; Supply and demand in domestic infant adoption; Adoption in the United States: systems and laws; Race-based marketing in adoption; Black Children in the adoption system; Slavery, the Black family, and adoption; Black children in the child-welfare system and transracial placements; The multiethnic placement act: rhetoric and reality; The high cost of race-based fee structures; Conclusion; Notes
4 Changing Ethnicities? Changing Paradigms? The Adoption of Black and Minority Ethnic Children in EnglandBackground; Reforming adoption and promoting the transracial; The Narey report and the coalition government; Ethnicity and adoption in the UK: changing contexts; An anti-multicultural turn?; Adoption of BME children in the UK: time for a change?; 5 The Commodification and Online Marketing of Children in Transnational Adoption; Senders and receivers; Racialization, inequality, and adoption; Adoption's child marketing tools: photolistings and web advertisements; Web advertisements
PhotolistingsDoes Internet use in adoption provide evidence of a new racial imperialism?; Notes; 6 'Someone's Roots': Gender, Rape, and Racialization in Korean American Adoption Narratives; Background; Methods and positionality; Race, rape, and colonization; Mail-order Asian girls; Birth-Mother-Self imaginaries; Conclusion; Notes; Part II Constructing Ethno-Racial Identities in Adoption; 7 Adoptive Parents e-Racing Adopted Children by Choosing, Keeping, Avoiding, and Purchasing Identity; Introduction; Adoption, identity, and the new racial structure
Using virtual ethnography to study racial assignment and cultural socialization
Includes bibliographical references and index.
When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal with issues of difference in adoption? This volume engages writers from both sides of the Atlantic to take a close look at these issues.
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