Children and the Politics of Cultural Belonging / ALICE HEARST.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hearst, Alice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interracial adoption--United States.

Interracial adoption.

Interethnic adoption--United States.

Interethnic adoption.

Intercountry adoption--United States.

Intercountry adoption.

Adopted children--United States.

Adopted children.

Ethnicity--United States.

Ethnicity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 204 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Children & the Politics of Cultural Belonging

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Conversations about multiculturalism rarely consider the position of children, who are presumptively nested in families and communities. Yet providing care for children who are unanchored from their birth families raises questions central to multicultural concerns, as they frequently find themselves moved from communities of origin through adoption or foster care, which deeply affects marginalized communities. This book explores the debate over communal and cultural belonging in three distinct contexts: domestic transracial adoptions of non-American Indian children, the scope of tribal authority over American Indian children, and cultural and communal belonging for transnationally adopted children. Understanding how children 'belong' to families and communities requires hard thinking about the extent to which cultural or communal belonging matters for children and communities, who should have authority to inculcate racial and cultural awareness and, finally, the degree to which children should be expected to adopt and carry forward racial or cultural identities.

Contents:

1. Children, law, and belonging; 2. Community, identity, and the importance o belonging; 3. Rainbow dreams and domestic transracial adoption; 4. Reclaiming the diaspora : American Indian children; 5. Transnational adoption in a shiftin world; 6. Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-88870-6

1-139-57948-7

1-139-08475-5

1-139-56910-4

1-139-57266-0

1-139-57345-4

1-139-57091-9

1-283-63866-5

1-139-57000-5

OCLC:

813396634