Claiming Others

by Jerng, Mark C.

• ISBN13: 9780816669592
• ISBN10: 0816669597
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-19
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

Transracial adoption has recently become a hotly contested subject of contemporary and critical concern, with scholars across the disciplines working to unravel its compleximplications. In Claiming Others, Mark C. Jerng traces the practice of adoption tothe early nineteenth century, revealing its surprising centrality to American literature,law, and social thought.

Author Biography

Mark C. Jerng is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Davis.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Transracial Adoption and the Reproduction of Personhood	p. vii
On The Borders of Kinship
Competing Logics of Possession
Unredeemed Captives in the 1820s	p. 3
Unmanageable Attachments
Slavery, Abolition, and the Transformation of Kinship	p. 45
The Character of Race
Individuation and the Institutionalization of Adoption	p. 85
Between Rights and Needs
The Right to Belong
Legal Norms, Cultural Origins, and Adoptee Identity	p. 125
Resisting Recognition
Narrating Transracial Adoptees as Subjects	p. 168
Making Family "Look like Real"
Transracial Adoption and the Challenge to Family	p. 209
Acknowledgments	p. 245
Notes	p. 249
Index	p. 293
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