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Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging
Mark C. Jerng
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Description for Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL; VFVK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396.
Transracial 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 through a diverse set of texts, including the 1851 Massachusetts statute that established ... Read more
Transracial 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 through a diverse set of texts, including the 1851 Massachusetts statute that established ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816669592
SKU
V9780816669592
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About Mark C. Jerng
Mark C. Jerng is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Davis.
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