Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption

Colleen Butler-Sweet, Sacred Heart University, USANicole Soojung Callahan, independent scholar, USALori Delale-O'Connor, Northwestern University, USABarbara Fedders, University of North Carolina, USACarla Goar, Kent State University, USABarbara Katz Rothman, City University of New York, USADerek Kirton, University of Kent, UKKazuyo Kubo, Lesley University, USAElizabeth Hunter Milovidov, American Graduate School, FranceSandra Patton-Imani, Drake University, USAElizabeth Raleigh, Carleton College, USAPamela Anne Quiroz, University of Illinois-Chicago, USAAmy Traver, City University of New York, USA

• 1. Race is a Fiction... Coloring Children and Parents Nonetheless; Vilna Bashi Treitler 2. Disability in the New Black: The Rise of the 'Cleft Lip and Palate Program' in Transracial International Adoption; Elisabeth Raleigh and Barbara Katz Rothman 3. Race and Market Values in Domestic Infant Adoption; Barbara Fedders 4. Changing Ethnicities? Changing Paradigms? The Adoption of Black and Minority Ethnic Children in England; Derek Kirton 5. The Commodification and Online Marketing of Children in International Adoption; Elizabeth Milovidov and Vilna Bashi Treitler 6. 'Someone's Roots': Gender, Rape, and Racialization in Korean American Adoption Narratives; Sandra Patton-Imani 7. Adoptive Parents Creating Neoethnics by Choosing, Avoiding, Keeping and Purchasing Identity; Pamela Quiroz 8. Safely 'Other': The Role of Culture Camps in the Construction of a Racial Identity for Adopted Children; Lori Delale-O'Connor 9. Producing Multiculturalism: Family Formation through Transnational Adoption; Kazuyo Kubo 10. Culture at Camp: White Parents' Understanding of Race; Carla Goar 11. 'Acting White' and 'Acting Black' Exploring Transracial Adoption, Middle-Class Families, and Racial Socialization; Coleen Butler-Sweet 12. Becoming a 'Chinese-American' Parent: Whiteness, Chinese Cultural Practice, and American Parents of Children Adopted from China; Amy E. Traver 13. Talking about Race and Adoption; Nicole Soojung Callahan