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The Violence of Love
Kit W. Myers
其他書名
Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States
出版Univ of California Press, 2025-01-28
主題Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralSocial Science / Race & Ethnic RelationsFamily & Relationships / Adoption & FosteringSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander StudiesSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
ISBN05204024999780520402492
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WTYBEQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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.