Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction: Race Is a Fiction … Coloring Children and Parents Nonetheless

   1. Introduction: Race Is a Fiction … Coloring Children and Parents Nonetheless

      • Vilna Bashi Treitler

      Pages 1-29

3. Constructing Desire in the Adoption Market

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. Disability Is the New Black: The Rise of the ‘Cleft Lip and Palate Program’ in Transracial International Adoption

      • Elizabeth Raleigh, Barbara Katz Rothman

      Pages 33-48

   3. Race and Market Values in Domestic Infant Adoption

      • Barbara Fedders

      Pages 49-69

   4. Changing Ethnicities? Changing Paradigms? The Adoption of Black and Minority Ethnic Children in England

      • Derek Kirton

      Pages 70-83

   5. The Commodification and Online Marketing of Children in Transnational Adoption

      • Elizabeth Hunter Milovidov, Vilna Bashi Treitler

      Pages 84-111

   6. ‘Someone’s Roots’: Gender, Rape, and Racialization in Korean American Adoption Narratives

      • Sandra Patton-Imani

      Pages 112-129

4. Constructing Ethno-Racial Identities in Adoption

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Adoptive Parents e-Racing Adopted Children by Choosing, Keeping, Avoiding, and Purchasing Identity

      • Pamela Anne Quiroz

      Pages 133-154

   3. Safely ‘Other’: The Role of Culture Camps in the Construction of a Racial Identity for Adopted Children

      • Lori Delale-O’Connor

      Pages 155-168

   4. Producing Multiculturalism: Family Formation through Transnational Adoption

      • Kazuyo Kubo

      Pages 169-189

   5. Culture at Camp: White Parents’ Understanding of Race

      • Carla Goar

      Pages 190-203

   6. ‘Acting White’ and ‘Acting Black’: Exploring Transracial Adoption, Middle-Class Families, and Racial Socialization

      • Colleen Butler-Sweet

      Pages 204-225

   7. Becoming a ‘Chinese-American’ Parent: Whiteness, Chinese Cultural Practice, and American Parents of Children Adopted from China

      • Amy E. Traver

      Pages 226-241

   8. Conclusion: Talking About Race and Adoption

      • Nicole Soojung Callahan

      Pages 242-247

5. Back Matter

   Pages 248-286

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When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal with issues of difference in adoption? This volume engages writers from both sides of the Atlantic to take a close look at these issues.

• International adoption
• transracial adoption
• race
• colorblind racism
• multiculturalism
• adoptive parents
• children
• China
• culture
• disability
• family
• gender
• identity
• marketing
• minority
• online
• online marketing
• socialization

• Department of Black and Latino Studies, Baruch College, USA

  Vilna Bashi Treitler

• Sociology Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

  Vilna Bashi Treitler

Colleen Butler-Sweet, Sacred Heart University, USA Nicole Soojung Callahan, independent scholar, USA Lori Delale-O'Connor, Northwestern University, USA Barbara Fedders, University of North Carolina, USA Carla Goar, Kent State University, USA Barbara Katz Rothman, City University of New York, USA Derek Kirton, University of Kent, UK Kazuyo Kubo, Lesley University, USA Elizabeth Hunter Milovidov, American Graduate School, France Sandra Patton-Imani, Drake University, USA Elizabeth Raleigh, Carleton College, USA Pamela Anne Quiroz, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA Amy Traver, City University of New York, USA

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