Children and the politics of cultural belonging / Alice Hearst, Smith College.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (viii, 204 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781139569101
- 1139569104
- 9781139084758
- 1139084755
- 6613951129
- 9786613951120
- 1283638665
- 9781283638661
- 9781139570916
- 1139570919
- 9781139572668
- 1139572660
- Interracial adoption -- United States
- Interethnic adoption -- United States
- Intercountry adoption -- United States
- Adopted children -- United States
- Ethnicity
- Indian foster children -- United States
- Adoption interraciale -- États-Unis
- Adoption interethnique -- États-Unis
- Adoption internationale -- États-Unis
- Enfants adoptés -- États-Unis
- Ethnicité
- Enfants indiens d'Amérique placés -- États-Unis
- ethnicity
- LAW -- Family Law -- General
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Abuse -- Child Abuse
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Adoption & Fostering
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- General
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- Parent & Adult Child
- Adopted children
- Ethnicity
- Indian foster children
- Intercountry adoption
- Interethnic adoption
- Interracial adoption
- United States
- 306.874 23
- HV875.64 .H43 2012eb
- LAW038000
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"This book explores the debate over communal and cultural belonging in three contexts: domestic transracial adoptions of non-American Indian children, the scope of tribal authority over American Indian children, and cultural and communal belonging for transnationally adopted children"-- Provided by publisher.
"Providing families for children in need is unquestionably a worthy goal. Adoption conjures soft-focus images of abandoned and vulnerable innocents welcomed into families who can love and nurture them. People who choose to engage in stranger adoptions - adoptions that do not involve kin or stepparents - are typically motivated both by a desire to become a parent and by a wish to do good in the world. The families thus created are, in fact, miraculous, and these families often work hard not only to provide for a found and chosen child but to give back to the communities from which the child originated. The uplifting story of family creation enabled by adoption, however, tows a darker story of marginalization and loss in its wake. Historically, adoption in the United States was not simply about providing care for needy children; it was also explicitly driven by the desire to move children from unsuitable to suitable families"-- Provided by publisher.
Children, law, and belonging -- Community, identity, and the importance of belonging -- Rainbow dreams and domestic transracial adoption -- Reclaiming the diaspora and American Indian children -- Transnational adoption in a shifting world.
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