Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption

by Vilna Bashi Treitler

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137275226
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/05/2014
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Colleen Butler-Sweet, Sacred Heart University, USA Nicole Soojung Callahan, independent scholar, USA Lori Delale-O'Connor, Northwestern University, USA Barbara Fedders, University of North Carolina, USA Carla Goar, Kent State University, USA Barbara Katz Rothman, City University of New York, USA Derek Kirton, University of Kent, UK Kazuyo Kubo, Lesley University, USA Elizabeth Hunter Milovidov, American Graduate School, France Sandra Patton-Imani, Drake University, USA Elizabeth Raleigh, Carleton College, USA Pamela Anne Quiroz, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA Amy Traver, City University of New York, USA

Table of Contents

1. Race is a Fiction... Coloring Children and Parents Nonetheless; Vilna Bashi Treitler 2. Disability in the New Black: The Rise of the 'Cleft Lip and Palate Program' in Transracial International Adoption; Elisabeth Raleigh and Barbara Katz Rothman 3. Race and Market Values in Domestic Infant Adoption; Barbara Fedders 4. Changing Ethnicities? Changing Paradigms? The Adoption of Black and Minority Ethnic Children in England; Derek Kirton 5. The Commodification and Online Marketing of Children in International Adoption; Elizabeth Milovidov and Vilna Bashi Treitler 6. 'Someone's Roots': Gender, Rape, and Racialization in Korean American Adoption Narratives; Sandra Patton-Imani 7. Adoptive Parents Creating Neoethnics by Choosing, Avoiding, Keeping and Purchasing Identity; Pamela Quiroz 8. Safely 'Other': The Role of Culture Camps in the Construction of a Racial Identity for Adopted Children; Lori Delale-O'Connor 9. Producing Multiculturalism: Family Formation through Transnational Adoption; Kazuyo Kubo 10. Culture at Camp: White Parents' Understanding of Race; Carla Goar 11. 'Acting White' and 'Acting Black' Exploring Transracial Adoption, Middle-Class Families, and Racial Socialization; Coleen Butler-Sweet 12. Becoming a 'Chinese-American' Parent: Whiteness, Chinese Cultural Practice, and American Parents of Children Adopted from China; Amy E. Traver 13. Talking about Race and Adoption; Nicole Soojung Callahan