Outsiders Within

by Trenka, Jane Jeong

• ISBN13: 9780896087644
• ISBN10: 0896087646
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-31
• Publisher: South End Pr

Summary

Healthy white infants are hard to find and expensive to adopt. So white people looking to grow their families turn to interracial and intercountry adoption, often with the idea that they're saving children from terrible lives. But as Outsiders Within reveals, although transracial adoption is generally considered win-win, it often exacts a heavy emotional, cultural, and even economic toll. Through gripping essays, poetry, and art, transracially adopted writers and artists from around world carefully explore this most intimate aspect of globalization. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	1	(18)
JULIA CHINYERE OPARAH, SUN YUNG SHIN, & JANE JEONG TRENKA
PART ONE WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM?
1 Garlic and Salt	19	(8)
SOO NA
2 Love Is Colorblind	27	(4)
Reflections of a Mixed Girl
JENI C. WRIGHT
3 Power of the Periphery	31	(8)
KIM DIEHL
4 Finding the Universal	39	(6)
Reflections on a Multi-Prismed Identity
MARK HAGLAND
PART TWO HOW DID YOU GET HERE?
5 Economic Miracles	45	(4)
SUN YUNG SHIN
6 Adoption Myths and Racial Realities in the United States	49	(8)
DOROTHY ROBERTS
7 The Finer Meaning	57	(2)
KIMBERLY R. FARDY
8 Parents in Prison, Children in Crisis	59	(16)
ELLEN M. BARRY
9 Orphaning the Children of Welfare "Crack Babies," Race, and Adoption Reform	75	(14)
LAURA BRIGGS
10 Shopping for Children in the International Marketplace	89	(16)
KIM PARK NELSON
11 Disappeared Children and the Adoptee as Immigrant	105	(12)
PATRICK MCDERMOTT
PART THREE COLONIAL IMAGINATIONS, GLOBAL MIGRATIONS
12 If I Pull Away	117	(8)
SHANDRA SPEARS
13 Flying the Coop	125	(14)
ICWA and the Welfare of Indian Children
HEIDI KIIWETINEPINESIIK STARK & KEKEK JASON TODD STARK
14 From Orphan Trains to Babylifts	139	(12)
Colonial Trafficking, Empire Building, and Social Engineering
TOBIAS HÜBINETTE
15 Scattered Seeds	151	(14)
The Christian Influence on Korean Adoption
JAE RAN KIM
PART FOUR GROWING THROUGH THE PAIN
16 Hunger	165	(2)
SHANNON GIBNEY
17 Korean Psych 101	167	(10)
Concepts of Hwa-Byung In Relation to Korean Adoption
BETH KYONG LO
18 Evolve	177	(2)
BRYAN THAO WORRA
19 Lifelong Impact, Enduring Need	179	(10)
JOHN RAIBLE
20 From Victim to Survivor	189	(10)
RON M.
21 Tending Denial	199	(8)
HEIDI LYNN ADELSMAN
22 Performing Childhood	207	(14)
RACHEL QUY COLLIER
PART FIVE— JOURNEYS HOME?
23 What Lies Beneath	221	(12)
Reframing Daughter from Danang
GREGORY PAUL CHOY & CATHERINE CENIZA CHOY
24 Proud To Be Me	233	(16)
AMI INJA NAFZGER
25 Praise Song for Ala	249	(4)
JULIA CHINYERE OPARAH
PART SIX SPEAKING FOR OURSELVES
26 Researching Adoption	253	(6)
Whose Perspective and What Issues?
KIRSTEN HOO-MI SLOTH
27 Beyond the Vietnam War Adoptions	259	(8)
RePresenting Our Transracial Lives
INDIGO WILLIAMS WILLING
28 No Longer Alone In This Grief	267	(18)
Service-User-Led Support For Transracial Adoptees
PERLITA HARRIS
29 The Making of KAD Nation	285	(6)
SUNNY JO
30 Generation After Generation We Are Coming Home	291	(12)
SANDRA WHITE HAWK
Organizational Resources for Adoptees	303	(2)
Index	305