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Legacies of (un)belonging have historical roots and resonate across quite different contexts of transracial and transnational adoption. In Adoption across Race and Nation activists, adoptees, and scholars across a range of fields--history, childhood studies, cultural anthropology, gender studies, social policy, and more--ask: What are the experiences of dual-heritage adoptees, and how have configurations of kinship, culture, and identity shaped their lives? How have transnationally and transracially adopted children approached their Americanness, their American whiteness, their American Blackness, their Asian Americanness? How do ""border crises"" turn ""adoptable children"" into revenue streams for countries, exposing the vulnerability of immigrant families of color? Offering case studies of post-World War II and Cold War adoptions of Black German and Black Korean children, Adoption across Race and Nation probes the intersections of race and nation as well as immigration and citizenship. It thus demonstrates that in the past as well as today, adoption, nation, and race continue to operate as relational categories with immediate effects on normative notions of family and kinship, belonging, the role of the state, and social welfare. Contributors: Silke Hackenesch, Laura Briggs, Pamela Anne Quiroz, Eleana J. Kim, Kim Park Nelson, Amy E. Traver, Kori A. Graves, Tracey Owens Patton, Rosemarie H. Peña, Peter Selman

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"""Adoption across Race and Nation showcases how intercountry adoption rides the tensions between binaries such as rescue and self-fulfillment, guardianship and consumption, global and local, foreign and native, and right and wrong. A necessary and compelling work, it broadens the significance of adoption studies in both the past and present."" --Tiffany N. Florvil, author of Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement ""Adoption Across Race and Nation is a welcome addition to a growing body of literature exploring race and transnational adoption. ... A highly informative edited collection addressing the long history and lasting legacies of transnational and transracial adoptees' displacement and (un)belonging."" --Hewan Girma, Ethnic and Racial Studies"

Adoption across Race and Nation showcases how intercountry adoption rides the tensions between binaries such as rescue and self-fulfillment, guardianship and consumption, global and local, foreign and native, and right and wrong. A necessary and compelling work, it broadens the significance of adoption studies in both the past and present. --Tiffany N. Florvil, author of Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement

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Silke Hackenesch is Associate Professor at the Institute of North American History in the Department of History, University of Cologne. She is the author of Chocolate and Blackness: A Cultural History.

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