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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mark C. JerngPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780816669585ISBN 10: 0816669589 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 19 November 2010 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print ![]() Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. 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"Reviews<p> Claiming Others is a pioneering study that provides high-level theoretical grounding for a new field. Transracial/transnational interactions are basic to American adoption history from the early nineteenth century, he demonstrates; they didn't just begin in the 1950s. Jerng makes intellectual and aesthetic sense of writings by and about a new community of transracial and transnational adoptees as he discusses their new modes of personhood. This book will be essential to anyone attempting a theoretically informed discussion of adoption and culture. --Marianne Novy, author of Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama Claiming Others is a pioneering study that provides high-level theoretical grounding for a new field. Transracial/transnational interactions are basic to American adoption history from the early nineteenth century, he demonstrates; they didn't just begin in the 1950s. Jerng makes intellectual and aesthetic sense of writings by and about a new community of transracial and transnational adoptees as he discusses their new modes of personhood. This book will be essential to anyone attempting a theoretically informed discussion of adoption and culture. --Marianne Novy, author of Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama Claiming Others is a pioneering study that provides high-level theoretical grounding for a new field. Transracial/transnational interactions are basic to American adoption history from the early nineteenth century, he demonstrates; they didn't just begin in the 1950s. Jerng makes intellectual and aesthetic sense of writings by and about a new community of transracial and transnational adoptees as he discusses their new modes of personhood. This book will be essential to anyone attempting a theoretically informed discussion of adoption and culture. Marianne Novy, author of Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama Claiming Others is a pioneering study that provides high-level theoretical grounding for a new field. Transracial/transnational interactions are basic to American adoption history from the early nineteenth century, he demonstrates; they didn't just begin in the 1950s. Jerng makes intellectual and aesthetic sense of writings by and about a new community of transracial and transnational adoptees as he discusses their new modes of personhood. This book will be essential to anyone attempting a theoretically informed discussion of adoption and culture. --Marianne Novy, author of Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama <i>Claiming Others</i> is a pioneering study that provides high-level theoretical grounding for a new field. Transracial/transnational interactions are basic to American adoption history from the early nineteenth century, he demonstrates; they didn't just begin in the 1950s. Jerng makes intellectual and aesthetic sense of writings by and about a new community of transracial and transnational adoptees as he discusses their new modes of personhood. This book will be essential to anyone attempting a theoretically informed discussion of adoption and culture. Marianne Novy, author of <i>Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama</i></p> Claiming Others is a pioneering study that provides high-level theoretical grounding for a new field. Transracial/transnational interactions are basic to American adoption history from the early nineteenth century, he demonstrates; they didn't just begin in the 1950s. Jerng makes intellectual and aesthetic sense of writings by and about a new community of transracial and transnational adoptees as he discusses their new modes of personhood. This book will be essential to anyone attempting a theoretically informed discussion of adoption and culture. Marianne Novy, author of Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama Author InformationMark C. Jerng is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |