| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 204 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"This book explores the debate over communal and cultural belonging in three contexts: domestic transracial adoptions of non-American Indian children, the scope of tribal authority over American Indian children, and cultural and communal belonging for transnationally adopted children"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Providing families for children in need is unquestionably a worthy goal. Adoption conjures soft-focus images of abandoned and vulnerable innocents welcomed into families who can love and nurture them. People who choose to engage in stranger adoptions - adoptions that do not involve kin or stepparents - are typically motivated both by a desire to become a parent and by a wish to do good in the world. The families thus created are, in fact, miraculous, and these families often work hard not only to provide for a found and chosen child but to give back to the communities from which the child originated. The uplifting story of family creation enabled by adoption, however, tows a darker story of marginalization and loss in its wake. Historically, adoption in the United States was not simply about providing care for needy children; it was also explicitly driven by the desire to move children from unsuitable to suitable families"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Children, law, and belonging -- Community, identity, and the importance of belonging -- Rainbow dreams and domestic transracial adoption -- Reclaiming the diaspora and American Indian children -- Transnational adoption in a shifting world. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Interracial adoption -- United States.
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Interracial adoption. |
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United States. |
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Interethnic adoption -- United States.
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Interethnic adoption. |
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Intercountry adoption -- United States.
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Intercountry adoption. |
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Adopted children -- United States.
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Adopted children. |
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Ethnicity.
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Ethnicity. |
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Indian foster children -- United States.
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Indian foster children. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hearst, Alice. Children and the politics of cultural belonging. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107017863 (DLC) 2012012620 (OCoLC)783520978 |
| ISBN |
9781139569101 (electronic book) |
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1139569104 (electronic book) |
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9781139084758 (electronic book) |
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1139084755 (electronic book) |
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6613951129 |
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9786613951120 |
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1283638665 |
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9781283638661 |
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9781139570916 |
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1139570919 |
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9781139572668 (ebook) |
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1139572660 (ebook) |
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9781107017863 |
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1107017866 |
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