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How transracial adoption and its history changes the way we see family, nation, and race.

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Contents
Introduction: Transracial Adoption and the Reproduction of Personhood
I. On the Borders of Kinship
1. Competing Logics of Possession: Unredeemed Captives in the 1820s
2. Unmanageable Attachments: Slavery, Abolition, and the Transformation of Kinship
3. The Character of Race: Individuation and the Institutionalization of Adoption
II. Between Rights and Needs
4. The Right to Belong: Legal Norms, Cultural Origins, and Adoptee Identity
5. Resisting Recognition: Narrating Transracial Adoptees as Subjects
6: Making Family "Look Like Real": Transracial Adoption and the Challenge to Family Formation
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 19/11/2010
      ISBN13: 9780816669592, 978-0816669592
      ISBN10: 0816669597
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      Anthropology Society and culture: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How transracial adoption and its history changes the way we see family, nation, and race.

      Table of Contents
      Contents
      Introduction: Transracial Adoption and the Reproduction of Personhood
      I. On the Borders of Kinship
      1. Competing Logics of Possession: Unredeemed Captives in the 1820s
      2. Unmanageable Attachments: Slavery, Abolition, and the Transformation of Kinship
      3. The Character of Race: Individuation and the Institutionalization of Adoption
      II. Between Rights and Needs
      4. The Right to Belong: Legal Norms, Cultural Origins, and Adoptee Identity
      5. Resisting Recognition: Narrating Transracial Adoptees as Subjects
      6: Making Family "Look Like Real": Transracial Adoption and the Challenge to Family Formation
      Acknowledgments
      Notes
      Index

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