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Title Outsiders within : writing on transracial adoption / Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, and Sun Yung Shin, editors.

Publication Info. Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2021.

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  362.734 OUTSIDERS    Check Shelf
Edition First University of Minnesota Press edition.
Description 329 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Note First published in 2006 by South End Press.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Confronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system"-- Provided by publisher.
"Many adoptees are required to become people that they were never meant to be. While transracial adoption tends to be considered benevolent, it often exacts a heavy emotional, cultural, and economic toll on those who directly experience it. Outsiders Within is a landmark publication that carefully explores this most intimate aspect of globalization through essays, fiction, poetry, and art. Moving beyond personal narrative, transracially adopted writers from around the world tackle difficult questions about how to survive the racist and ethnocentric worlds they inhabit, what connects the countries relinquishing their children to the countries importing them, why poor families of color have their children removed rather than supported--about who, ultimately, they are. In their inquiry, the contributors unseat conventional understandings of adoption politics, reframing the controversy as a debate that encompasses human rights, peace, and reproductive justice." -- Back cover.
Credits Contributors: Heidi Lynn Adelsman; Ellen M. Barry; Laura Briggs, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Catherine Ceniza Choy, U of California, Berkeley; Gregory Paul Choy, U of California, Berkeley; Rachel Quy Collier; J. A. Dare; Kim Diehl; Kimberly R. Fardy; Laura Gannarelli; Shannon Gibney; Mark Hagland; Perlita Harris; Tobias Hübinette, Stockholm U; Jae Ran Kim; Anh Đào Kolbe; Mihee-Nathalie Lemoine; Beth Kyong Lo; Ron M.; Patrick McDermott, Salem State College, Massachusetts; Tracey Moffatt; Ami Inja Nafzger (aka Jin Inja); Kim Park Nelson; John Raible; Dorothy Roberts, Northwestern U; Raquel Evita Saraswati; Kirsten Hoo-Mi Sloth; Soo Na; Shandra Spears; Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark; Kekek Jason Todd Stark; Sunny Jo; Sandra White Hawk; Indigo Williams Willing; Bryan Thao Worra; Jeni C. Wright.
Subject Interracial adoption.
Interracial adoption. (OCoLC)fst00977475
Added Author Trenka, Jane Jeong, 1972- editor.
Oparah, Julia Chinyere, editor.
Shin, Sun Yung, editor.
Other Editions: Reproduction of (manifestation): Outsiders within Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, 2006 (DLC) 2006022198
ISBN 9781517910532 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1517910536
9781452965208 (ebook)
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