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Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption

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Editors:
  1. Vilna Bashi Treitler

    1. Department of Black and Latino Studies, Baruch College, USA
      Sociology Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Race Is a Fiction … Coloring Children and Parents Nonetheless

    1. Introduction: Race Is a Fiction … Coloring Children and Parents Nonetheless

      • Vilna Bashi Treitler
      Pages 1-29

  4. Constructing Ethno-Racial Identities in Adoption

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Adoptive Parents e-Racing Adopted Children by Choosing, Keeping, Avoiding, and Purchasing Identity

      • Pamela Anne Quiroz
      Pages 133-154

    3. Safely ‘Other’: The Role of Culture Camps in the Construction of a Racial Identity for Adopted Children

      • Lori Delale-O’Connor
      Pages 155-168

    4. Producing Multiculturalism: Family Formation through Transnational Adoption

      • Kazuyo Kubo
      Pages 169-189

    5. Culture at Camp: White Parents’ Understanding of Race

      • Carla Goar
      Pages 190-203

    6. ‘Acting White’ and ‘Acting Black’: Exploring Transracial Adoption, Middle-Class Families, and Racial Socialization

      • Colleen Butler-Sweet
      Pages 204-225

    7. Becoming a ‘Chinese-American’ Parent: Whiteness, Chinese Cultural Practice, and American Parents of Children Adopted from China

      • Amy E. Traver
      Pages 226-241

    8. Conclusion: Talking About Race and Adoption

      • Nicole Soojung Callahan
      Pages 242-247

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 248-286
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Black and Latino Studies, Baruch College, USA

    Vilna Bashi Treitler

  • Sociology Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

    Vilna Bashi Treitler

About the editor

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

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