The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States Kit W. Myers ebook#
Page: 284
Format: pdf / epub / kindle
ISBN: 9780520402485
Publisher: University of California Press
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. The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States The Violence of Love challenges the narrative that adoption is a solely loving act that benefits birth parents, adopted individuals, and adoptive parents—a . Overview of the Family - 2012 Book Archive Understand the status of the nuclear family in the United States since the colonial period. Although not publicized back then, alcoholism and violence in . The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States | Washington Independent Review of Books. Visit. Save. Visit. Save. More to explore. Washington Independent Review of Books - Facebook the-violence-of-love-race-family-and-adoption-in-the-united-states "A probing look at what America gets wrong about transracial adoption . the Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption United States 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 .