My thesis, "Love and Violence in Transracial/national Adoption," examines a New York Times special transracial adoption blog series, "Relative Choices," to critically interrogate how love and violence operate in adoption discourse. In doing so, it explores two main questions: How have transracial/national adoptions been posited in the past and how does that inform current articulations? Second, how would a global/historical framework help rethink transracial/national adoptions beyond one based on the local/present? Specifically, I am interested in how a global/historical framework, on a larger level, disrupts our understandings of narratives of love, inclusion and progress and, on an individual family or particular level, how does such a fr...
More than ever before, the question, “Where am I from?” becomes harder and harder to answer. Globali...
This chapter focuses on the concept of trans-racial adoption of children and adults. Despite the rec...
This paper brings together an autoethnographic account of adoption with post-colonial theoretical in...
My dissertation is about the violence of love in transnational/racial adoptive family-making. I defi...
This dissertation analyzes how people situate race when defining their own families through transn...
The standard profile of the American family has undergone a dramatic change within the last few deca...
The myth of abandoned children of immigrants and Indigenous folk forms multicultural families throug...
Whereas the adoption of a child is often framed in terms of a gift exchange, the goal of this disser...
In this thesis, transnational adoption is used as an illustrative example to address the tension bet...
This article takes at its point of the departure the practice of transracial adoption of children an...
This article describes how political and psychological phenomena interact often to the detriment of ...
Although in recent years substantial attention has been devoted to both transracial and internationa...
This essay expounds on the shifting motivation for adoption in the United States using a critical ra...
2 This article focuses on the controversy over the transracial adoption (TRA) of African-American ch...
This chapter focuses on the concept of trans-racial adoption of children and adults. Despite recent ...
More than ever before, the question, “Where am I from?” becomes harder and harder to answer. Globali...
This chapter focuses on the concept of trans-racial adoption of children and adults. Despite the rec...
This paper brings together an autoethnographic account of adoption with post-colonial theoretical in...
My dissertation is about the violence of love in transnational/racial adoptive family-making. I defi...
This dissertation analyzes how people situate race when defining their own families through transn...
The standard profile of the American family has undergone a dramatic change within the last few deca...
The myth of abandoned children of immigrants and Indigenous folk forms multicultural families throug...
Whereas the adoption of a child is often framed in terms of a gift exchange, the goal of this disser...
In this thesis, transnational adoption is used as an illustrative example to address the tension bet...
This article takes at its point of the departure the practice of transracial adoption of children an...
This article describes how political and psychological phenomena interact often to the detriment of ...
Although in recent years substantial attention has been devoted to both transracial and internationa...
This essay expounds on the shifting motivation for adoption in the United States using a critical ra...
2 This article focuses on the controversy over the transracial adoption (TRA) of African-American ch...
This chapter focuses on the concept of trans-racial adoption of children and adults. Despite recent ...
More than ever before, the question, “Where am I from?” becomes harder and harder to answer. Globali...
This chapter focuses on the concept of trans-racial adoption of children and adults. Despite the rec...
This paper brings together an autoethnographic account of adoption with post-colonial theoretical in...