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Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific
Jenny Heijun Wills, Tobias Hübinette, and Indigo Willing, Editors
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Adoption and Multiculturalism features the voices of international scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble common understandings about who is being adopted, who is adopting, and where these acts are taking place, challenging in fascinating ways the tidy master narrative of saviorhood and the concept of a monolithic Western receiving nation. Too often the presumption is that the adoptive and receiving country is one that celebrates racial and ethnic diversity, thus making it superior to the conservative and insular places from which adoptees arrive. The volume's contributors subvert the often simplistic ways that multiculturalism is linked to transnational and transracial adoption and reveal how troubling multiculturalism in fact can be.
The contributors represent a wide range of disciplines, cultures, and connections in relation to the adoption constellation, bringing perspectives from Europe (including Scandinavia), Canada, the United States, and Australia. The book brings together the various methodologies of literary criticism, history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural theory to demonstrate the multifarious and robust ways that adoption and multiculturalism might be studied and considered. Edited by three transnational and transracial adoptees, Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific offers bold new scholarship that revises popular notions of transracial and transnational adoption as practice and phenomenon.
The contributors represent a wide range of disciplines, cultures, and connections in relation to the adoption constellation, bringing perspectives from Europe (including Scandinavia), Canada, the United States, and Australia. The book brings together the various methodologies of literary criticism, history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural theory to demonstrate the multifarious and robust ways that adoption and multiculturalism might be studied and considered. Edited by three transnational and transracial adoptees, Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific offers bold new scholarship that revises popular notions of transracial and transnational adoption as practice and phenomenon.
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Section 1. Negotiating Everyday, Familial, and National Multiculturalism
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Embodying Multiple Selves
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Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Racialized Belongings
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Reunions with Siblings in Search Memoirs across Cultures
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Section 2. Interrupting Myths of Postraciality and Autochthony
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Shared and Divergent Landscapes of Transnational Adoption Politics and Critique
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Civilizing Missions and Mimicry in Sweden’s Colonial Present
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From Adoptee to Trespasser
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Section 3. Exposing Discrepancies
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Black and White Strangers
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Black Identity-Making in Flanders
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Transnational Adoption and the Emergence of Sweden’s Progressive Reproduction Policy
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How to “Kin” the Transnational Adoptee in the Québécois Nationalist Family Romance?
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Coda
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Contributors
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Index
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Published: 2020
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-07451-8 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-12681-1 (ebook)