racial silence

Artiklen bygger på en ph.d.-afhandling om transnational adoption og racialiseret tilbli- velse. Der er interviewet 35 voksne koreansk adopterede, født mellem 1967-81. Afhandlin- gen er rettet mod at producere to niveauer af viden: dels ved at skabe indsigt i transnational adoption på et niveau af levet liv, dels ved at udvikle et begreb om racialiseret subjektive- ring i Danmark. Analyserne viser, hvorledes slægtskab og forbundethed i adoptivfamilien hviler på en betoning af (dansk) etnicitet og nedtoning af racial forskellighed. De raciale stilheder, som konfigureres omkring emner som race og racisme, bliver anskuet i lyset af dominerende idealer om farveblindhed. Analyserne fremløfter en spænding mellem racialisering som erfaret livsvilkår og en kul- turel benægtelse af selvsamme racialisering. Afhandlingen bygger på feministisk, queer og postkoloniale teoridannelser samt en tradition for kritisk adoptionsforskning.The article serves as an introduction to a Ph.D. dissertation on transnational adoption. The study is based on 35 interviews with adult Ko- rean adoptees who were born between 1967-81 and raised by Danish parents. The ambition of the study is twofold: To produce knowledge about transnational adoption as lived experi- ence and to conceptualize processes of racial- ized subjectification in Denmark. The study points to how kinship and feelings of related- ness within the adoptive family are mediated through a shared Danish identity and partial ef- facement of racialized difference. Effacement and silence surrounding questions of race and racism is viewed in relation to dominant ideals of colorblindness and the idea of Denmark as a tolerant nation. The oral histories display a tension between experiences of racialized sub- jectification and a wider cultural denial of ra- cialized differentiation in Denmark. The study draws on feminist, postcolonial, and queer theory as well as critical adoption studies