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Title Outsiders within : writing on transracial adoption / edited by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, and Sun Yung Shin ; with contributions by Heidi Lynn Adelsman ... [and others].

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, 2006.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HV875.6 .O87 2006    Available  ---
Description xviii, 317 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Summary "Explores transracial adoption from adopted adults' perspectives using memoir, reflective/analytical essays, poetry, artwork, film critique, psychology, sociology, critical race, reproductive justice, more. Discusses reasons children become available for international adoption (war, poverty, structural inequities), ramifications of the colorblind ideal for adoptees (dealing with racism, cultural alienation, emotional isolation)"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Julia Chinyere Oparah, Sun Yung Shin, & Jane Jeong Trenka -- pt. 1. Where are your really from? -- Garlic and salt / Soo Na -- Love is colorblind: reflections of a mixed girl / Jeni C. Wright -- Power of the periphery / Kim Diehl -- Finding the universal: reflections on a multi-prismed identity / Mark Hagland -- pt. 2. How did you get here? -- Economic miracles / Sun Yung Shin -- Adoption myths and racial realities in the United States / Dorothy Roberts -- The finer meaning / Kimberly R. Fardy -- Parents in prison, children in crisis / Ellen M. Barry -- Orphaning the children of welfare: "crack babies", race, and adoption reform / Laura Briggs -- Shopping for children in the international marketplace / Kim Park Nelson -- Disappeared children and the adoptee as immigrant / Patrick McDermott -- pt. 3. Colonial imaginations, global migrations -- If I pull away / Shandra Spears -- Flying the coop: ICWA and the welfare of Indian children / Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark & Kekek Jason Todd Stark -- From orphan trains to babylifts: colonial trafficking, empire building, and social engineering / Tobias Hübinette -- Scattered seeds: the Christian influence on Korean adoption / Jae Ran Kim --
pt. 4. Growing through the pain -- Hunger / Shannon Gibney -- Korean Psych 101: concepts of Hwa-Byung in relation to Korean adoption / Beth Kyong Lo -- Evolve / Bryan Thao Worra -- Lifelong impact, enduring need / John Raible -- From victim to survivor / Ron M. -- Tending denial / Heidi Lynn Adelsman -- Performing childhood / Rachel Quy Collier -- pt. 5. Journeys home? -- What lies beneath: reframing daughter from Danang / Gregory Paul Choy & Catherine Ceniza Choy -- Proud to be me / Ami Inja Nafzger -- Praise song for Ala / Julia Chinyere Oparah -- pt. 6. Speaking for ourselves -- Researching adoption: whose perspective and what issues? / Kirsten Hoo-Mi Sloth -- Beyond the Vietnam War adoptions: re-presenting our transracial lives / Indigo Williams Willing -- No longer alone in this grief: service-user-led support for transracial adoptees / Perlita Harris -- The making of KAD nation / Sunny Jo -- Generation after generation we are coming home / Sandra White Hawk.
Subject Interracial adoption.
Interracial adoption.
Added Author Trenka, Jane Jeong, 1972-
Oparah, Julia Chinyere.
Shin, Sun Yung.
ISBN 0896087646 alkaline paper
9780896087644 alkaline paper