Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption

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Confronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system--now back in print 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. 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. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Introduction Part One: Where Are You Really From? 1. Garlic and Salt 2. Love Is Colorblind: Reflections of a Mixed Girl 3. Power of the Periphery 4. Finding the Universal: Reflections on a Multi-Prismed Identity Part Two: How Did You Get Here? 5. Economic Miracles 6. Adoption Myths and Racial Realities in the United States 7. The Finer Meaning 8. Parents in Prison, Children in Crisis 9. Orphaning the Children of Welfare: “Crack Babies,” Race, and Adoption Reform 10. Shopping for Children in the International Marketplace 11. Disappeared Children and the Adoptee as Immigrant Part Three: Colonial Imaginations, Global Migrations 12. If I Pull Away 13. Flying the Coop: ICWA and the Welfare of Indian Children 14. From Orphan Trains to Babylifts: Colonial Trafficking, Empire Building, and Social Engineering 15. Scattered Seeds: The Christian Influence on Korean Adoption Part Four: Growing through the Pain 16. Hunger 17. Korean Psych 101: Concepts of Hwa-Byung in Relation to Korean Adoption 18. Evolve 19. Lifelong Impact, Enduring Need 20. From Victim to Survivor 21. Tending Denial 22. Performing Childhood Part Five: Journeys Home? 23. What Lies Beneath: Reframing Daughter from Danang 24. Proud to Be Me 25. Praise Song for Ala Part Six: Speaking for Ourselves 26. Researching Adoption: Whose Perspective and What Issues? 27. Beyond the Vietnam War Adoptions: RePresenting Our Transracial Lives 28. No Longer Alone in This Grief: Service-User-Led Support for Transracial Adoptees 29. The Making of KAD Nation 30. Generation after Generation We Are Coming Home Adoptee Organizations Acknowledgments Permissions Contributors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z