Claiming others
Subtitle: transracial adoption and national belonging
By: Mark C. Jerng
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816669585; 9780816669592
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Transracial adoption and the reproduction of personhood; title: On the borders of kinship; title: Competing logics of possession : unredeemed captives in the 1820s; title: Unmanageable attachments : slavery, abolition, and the transformation of kinship; title: The character of race : individuation and the institutionalization of adoption; title: Between rights and needs; title: The right to belong : legal norms, cultural origins, and adoptee identity; title: Resisting recognition : narrating transracial adoptees as subjects; title: Making family "look like real" : transracial adoption and the challenge to family; title: Formation.