Adoption across Race and Nation

<div>Legacies of (un)belonging have historical roots and resonate across quite different contexts of transracial and transnational adoption. In <i>Adoption across Race and Nation</i> 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 <i>Adoption across Race and Nation</i> 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</div>