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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