Claiming others : transracial adoption and national belonging / Mark C. Jerng.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jerng, Mark C.
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:	American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Interracial adoption in literature. Adoption in literature. Race in literature. Interracial adoption.
Physical Description:	xliii, 306 pages ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Transracial adoption and the reproduction of personhood
On the borders of kinship
Competing logics of possession : unredeemed captives in the 1820s
Unmanageable attachments : slavery, abolition, and the transformation of kinship
The character of race : individuation and the institutionalization of adoption
Between rights and needs
The right to belong : legal norms, cultural origins, and adoptee identity
Resisting recognition : narrating transracial adoptees as subjects
Making family "look like real" : transracial adoption and the challenge to family
Formation.