Race in transnational and transracial adoption / edited by Vilna Bashi Treitler.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Bashi Treitler, Vilna, editor.

Series:

• Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Intercountry adoption.
• Interracial adoption.
• Interethnic adoption.
• Race.
• Ethnicity.

Physical Description:

xvi, 286 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

When parents form families by reaching across social barriers (the color line, and/or the boundaries between 'First World' and 'Third World' nations) 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 race in transnational and transracial adoption. The contributors interrogate how adoption agencies engage race online; how parents understand race as a factor in choosing and raising their adopted children; how culture camps engage with parents and children about racial issues; and how social policy shapes the racial aspects of adoption, for better or worse. Book jacket.

Contents:

• 1 Introduction: Race Is a Fiction...Coloring Children and Parents Nonetheless / Vilna Bashi Treitler Treitler, Vilna Bashi 1
• What race is, and what race is not 2
• Race and Adoption 3
• Adoption as an index of vulnerability 6
• Transnational adoption begins in a racialized climate 6
• Aboriginals of the Americas and Australia 8
• African American children, available and largely unadopted 9
• A racialized market for 'Available' children 10
• Adoptions as case studies in racialization 13
• Shaping desire across adoption's color line 14
• Colorblindness and race-awareness in adoption 18
• Why we must talk about race in adoption, and outside of it 26
• Notes 27
• Part 1 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 / Elizabeth Raleigh Raleigh, Elizabeth, Barbara Katz Rothman Rothman, Barbara Katz 33
• Introduction: the changing landscape of international adoption 33
• The Study 35
• Findings 36
• The popularity of international adoption: healthy infants 36
• 'Our challenge for the future': making the age/race/health comparison in adoption 37
• 'A normal life': minor and correctable medical conditions 39
• 'The Cleft Lip and Palate Program' in China 43
• Conclusion 45
• Note 48
• 3 Race and Market Values in Domestic Infant Adoption / Barbara Fedders Fedders, Barbara 49
• Introduction 49
• Supply and demand in domestic infant adoption 50
• Adoption in the United States: systems and laws 50
• Race-based marketing in adoption 53
• Black Children in the adoption system 54
• Slavery, the Black family, and adoption 55
• Black children in the child-welfare system and transracial placements 55
• The multiethnic placement act: rhetoric and reality 56
• The high cost of race-based fee structures 59
• Conclusion 62
• Notes 62
• 4 Changing Ethnicities? Changing Paradigms? The Adoption of Black and Minority Ethnic Children in England / Derek Kirton Kirton, Derek 70
• Background 70
• Reforming adoption and promoting the transracial 72
• The Narey report and the coalition government 73
• Ethnicity and adoption in the UK: changing contexts 76
• An anti-multiculural turn? 78
• Adopation of BME children in the UK: time for a change? 80
• 5 The Commodification and Online Marketing of Children in Transnational Adoption / Elizabeth Hunter Milovidoc Milovidoc, Elizabeth Hunter, Vilna Bashi Treitler Treitler, Vilna Bashi 84
• Senders and receivers 85
• Racialization, inequality, and adoption 95
• Adoption's child marketing tools: photolistings and web advertisements 95
• Web Advertisements 98
• Photolistings 100
• Does Internet use in adoption provide evidence of a new racial imperialism? 104
• Notes 109
• 6 'Someone's Roots': Gender, Rape, and Racialization in Korean American Adoption Narratives / Sandra Patton-Imani Patton-Imani, Sandra 112
• Background 112
• Methods and positionality 116
• Race, rape, and colonization 118
• Mail-order Asian girls 121
• Birth-Mother-Self imaginaries 125
• Conclusion 129
• Notes 129
• Part II Constructing Ethno-Racial Identities in Adoption
• 7 Adoptive Parents e-Racing Adopted Children by Choosing Keeping, Avoiding and Purchasing Identity / Pamela Anne Quiroz Quiroz, Pamela Anne 133
• Introduction 133
• Adoption, identity, and the ne racial structure 134
• Using virtual ethnography to study racial assignment and cultural socialization 138
• Choosing identity 143
• Avoiding identity 147
• Keeping identity 149
• Purchasing identity 150
• Adoptive parents 'doing' identity and creating neoethnics 152
• Notes 153
• 8 Safely 'Other': The Role of Culture Camps in the Construction of a Racial Identity for Adopted Children / Lori Deale-O'Connor Deale-O'Connor, Lori 155
• Introduction 155
• Background 156
• Data and methods 158
• Camp overview 158
• Hands around the globe culture camp 159
• Ikids culture camp 160
• Analysis 161
• Camps as producers of identity 163
• Identity as an accessory 165
• Conclusion 167
• Notes 168
• 9 Producing Multiculturalism: Family Formation through Transnational Adoption / Kazuyo Kudo Kudo, Kazuyo 169
• Introduction 169
• Theoretical discontinuities between multiculturalism and race 171
• Methods and data 175
• Agencies' multicultural and multiracial curriculum 177
• Multicultural and multiracial education: a workshop for adoption professionals 178
• The organization of training sessions 179
• Agency in a Small City (ASC) 179
• Agency in a Major Metropolitan Area (AMMA) 180
• Agency's role as specialist on building multicultural families 181
• The adoption agencies' dilemma: multiculturalism and racism 182
• Incorporating racism into a discourse of multiculturalism 184
• Transcending race? How agencies articulate multiculturalism 185
• Discussion and conclusion 188
• Notes 189
• 10 Culture at Camp: White Parents' Understanding of Race / Carla Goar Goar, Carla 190
• Introduction 190
• Theoretical framework 191
• Colorblind ideology 191
• Race consciousness 192
• Background 193
• Transracial adoption 193
• Culture camps 195
• Methods 195
• Findings 196
• Colorblindness at camp 196
• Consciousness at camp 199
• Discussion and conclusion 202
• Note 203
• 11 'Acting White' and 'Acting Black' Exploring Transracial Adoption, Middle-Class Families, and Racial Socialization / Colleen Butler-Sweet Butler-Sweet, Colleen 204
• Race, class, and transracial adoption: a literature review 205
• Racial identity formation 205
• The transracial adoption debate 206
• The importance of class 207
• Methods 209
• Participants 209
• Procedure 209
• Measures 210
• Findings 211
• Straddling the line between race and class socialization 211
• 'Acting white' and 'acting black' 214
• Feeling thankful for family 218
• Discussion and analysis 219
• Conclusion 224
• Note 225
• 12 Becoming a 'Chinese-American' Parent: Whiteness Chinese Cultural Practice, and American Parents of Children Adopted from China / Amy E. Traver Traver, Amy E. 226
• Theoretical framework 227
• Data and methods 228
• Whiteness and Parents' 'Chinese-American' identificatications 229
• Participation in Chinese cultural events organized by Families with Children from China (FCC) 230
• Consumption of Chinese cultural objects for display in the home 233
• Development of relationships with Americans of Chinese heritage 236
• Discussion and conclusion 239
• Notes 240
• 13 Conclusion: Talking About Race and Adoption / Nicole Soojung Callaham Callaham, Nicole Soojung 242
• The persistent myth of 'colorblindness' in adoption 242
• Problematic framings of transracial adoption 243
• Challenges for transracial adoptees and their parents 244
• Learning from the experiences of transracial adoptees 246
• Note 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781137275226
• 1137275227

OCLC:

873725263