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Book SynopsisLegacies 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 citiz
