LEADER 03183nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910785687303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8166-7516-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000069687 035 $a(EBL)635546 035 $a(OCoLC)698116874 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000467719 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11973239 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467719 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10496749 035 $a(PQKB)10688763 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC635546 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29844 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL635546 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10440598 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL525746 035 $a(PPN)161122213 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000069687 100 $a20100813d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aClaiming others$b[electronic resource] $etransracial adoption and national belonging /$fMark C. Jerng 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8166-6959-7 311 0 $a0-8166-6958-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTransracial adoption and the reproduction of personhood -- On the borders of kinship -- Competing logics of possession : unredeemed captives in the 1820's -- Unmanageable attachments : slavery, abolition, and the transformation of kinship -- The character of race : individuation and the institutionalization of adoption -- Between rights and needs -- The right to belong : legal norms, cultural origins, and adoptee identity -- Resisting recognition : narrating transracial adoptees as subjects -- Making family "look like real" : transracial adoption and the challenge to family. 330 $aTransracial adoption has recently become a hotly contested subject of contemporary and critical concern, with scholars across the disciplines working to unravel its complex implications. In Claiming Others , Mark C. Jerng traces the practice of adoption to the early nineteenth century, revealing its surprising centrality to American literature, law, and social thought. Jerng considers how adoption makes us rethink the parent-child bond as central to issues of race and nationality, showing the ways adoption also speaks to broader questions about our history and identity. He analyzes adoption 606 $aAdoption in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aInterracial adoption in literature 606 $aInterracial adoption 606 $aRace in literature 615 0$aAdoption in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aInterracial adoption in literature. 615 0$aInterracial adoption. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a362.734 676 $a810.9/35254 700 $aJerng$b Mark C$0938046 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785687303321 996 $aClaiming others$93846215 997 $aUNINA