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Reframing transracial adoption : adopted Koreans, white parents, and the politics of kinship / Kristi Brian.
Van Pelt Library HV875.64 .B75 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brian, Kristi, 1969-
- Series:
- Asian American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interracial adoption--United States.
- Interracial adoption.
- Adopted children.
- United States.
- Interracial adoption--Korea (South).
- Korea (South).
- Adopted children--Korea (South).
- Korean American children.
- Ethnicity.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 214 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- 1 Adoption Matters: Beyond Catastrophe and Spectacle 1
- 2 Adoption Facilitators and the Marketing of Family Building: "Expert" Systems Meet Spurious Culture 22
- 3 Navigating Racism: Avoiding and Confronting "Difference" in Families 50
- 4 Navigating Kinship: Searching for Family beyond and within "the Doctrine of Genealogical Unity" 101
- 5 Strategic Interruptions versus Possessive Investment-Transnational Adoption in the Era of New Racism 142.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439901830
- 143990183X
- 9781439901847
- 1439901848
- 9781439901854
- 1439901856
- OCLC:
- 757475426
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