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The Violence of Love
- Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States
Engelsk Paperback
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The Violence of Love
- Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States
Engelsk Paperback

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Violence of Love challenges the narrative that adoption is a solely loving act that benefits birth parents, adopted individuals, and adoptive parents—a narrative that is especially pervasive with transracial and transnational adoptions. Using interdisciplinary methods of archival, legal, and discursive analysis, Kit W. Myers comparatively examines the adoption of Asian, Black, and Native American children by White families in the United States. He shows how race has been constructed relationally to mark certain homes, families, and nations as spaces of love, freedom, and better futures—in contrast to others that are not—and argues that violence is attached to adoption in complex ways. Propelled by different types of love, such adoptions attempt to transgress biological, racial, cultural, and national borders established by traditional family ideals. Yet they are also linked to structural, symbolic, and traumatic forms of violence. The Violence of Love confronts this discomforting reality and rethinks theories of family to offer more capacious understandings of love, kinship, and care.    
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
284
ISBN-13:
9780520402485
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520402480
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
28 jan 2025
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
28 jan 2025
Forfatter(e):
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