Constructing Transnational and Transracial Identity

Constructing Transnational and Transracial Identity
Author: Sigalit Ben-Zion
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2014
Genre: Adoptees
ISBN: 9781349502721

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Sweden, Norway, and Denmark are home to more than ninety thousand transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. Ben-Zion seeks to answer a variety of questions in this multi-sited ethnography, including: How do transcolor adoptees define their social boundaries and negotiate their social position in relation to ethnic Scandinavians and non-European immigrants? What are the different discourses and ideologies imposed on them by these social actors? She provides a unique perspective on how these transcolor adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersections of racial, ethnic, class, family, and national lines. The book provides fertile ground for comparison by examining their cultural identity in a global context of cultural assimilation, integration, loyalty, membership, familial, ethnic and national belonging, and the experience of having a visible racial identity in a predominantly white environment.

Constructing Transnational and Transracial Identity

Constructing Transnational and Transracial Identity
Author: Sigalit Ben-Zion
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2014-11-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137472820

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Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersection of ethnicity, family, and national lines.

Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption

Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption
Author: Vilna Bashi Treitler
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2014-07-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137275235

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When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal with issues of difference in adoption? This volume engages writers from both sides of the Atlantic to take a close look at these issues.

Identity and the In-between Space in Transracial Adoptee Literature

Identity and the In-between Space in Transracial Adoptee Literature
Author: Wendy Michelle Owens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2018
Genre: Adopted children
ISBN:

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Within the past few years, adoptees have been challenging the positive adoption narratives about them by implementing corrective action movements through various scholarly, literary, and rhetorical media in order to claim their voices and agency. Exploring such movements, this dissertation focuses on several significant books about transnational adoption. These works are: Perpetual child: dismantling the stereotype; Outsiders within: writing on transracial adoption; Flip the script: adult adoptee anthology; Lucky girl: a memoir; Ghost of Sangju: a memoir of reconciliation; and Fugitive visions: an adoptee's return to Korea. The narratives individually and collectively offer alternative voices in the exploration of identities across borders, cultures, and boundaries in ways that intersect with immigration and ethnic literature. Each book strengthens the intersectionality conversation of transnational adoptees and the importance of understanding their in-between identities as unique. Moreover, each narrative reflects the transnational adoptees' temporary umbrella of white privilege and their 1.5 generation immigration status that set them apart from same-race and transracial domestically-adopted persons as well as their first-generation cohort and second-generation same-aged peers. Focusing on these dynamics, this dissertation attempts to privilege transnational adoptee books and scholarship that work to shift the conversations about orphan/adoptees to those created by adoptees. It aims to make a space for their missing voices.

Constructing Narratives in Response to Trump's Election

Constructing Narratives in Response to Trump's Election
Author: Shing-Ling S. Chen
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1498564550

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This book analyzes narratives on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election victory by and for diverse populations. The narratives are designed to help students, women, young Christians, evangelicals, parents of internationally adopted children, white nationalists, etc. understand the meaning and possible consequences of Trump’s election, as well as to give voice to the responses and concerns of populations directly affected by Trump’s election. Recommended for scholars interested in political communication, rhetoric, cultural studies, sociology, and media studies.

Claiming Others

Claiming Others
Author: Mark C. Jerng
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2010
Genre: Adoption in literature
ISBN: 1452915008

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Unfamiliar Landscapes

Unfamiliar Landscapes
Author: Thomas Aneurin Smith
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 579
Release: 2022-06-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030944603

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This book critically interrogates how young people are introduced to landscapes through environmental education, outdoor recreation, and youth-led learning, drawing on diverse examples of green, blue, outdoor, or natural landscapes. Understanding the relationships between young people and unfamiliar landscapes is vital for young people’s current and future education and wellbeing, but how landscapes and young people are socially constructed as unfamiliar is controversial and contested. Young people are constructed as unfamiliar within certain landscapes along lines of race, gender or class: this book examines the cultures of outdoor learning that perpetuate exclusions and inclusions, and how unfamiliarity is encountered, experienced, constructed, and reproduced. This interdisciplinary text, drawing on Human Geography, Education, Leisure and Heritage Studies, and Anthropology, challenges commonly-held assumptions about how and why young people are educated in unfamiliar landscapes. Practice is at the heart of this book, which features three ‘conversations with practitioners’ who draw on their personal and professional experiences. The chapters are organised into five themes: (1) The unfamiliar outdoors; (2) The unfamiliar past; (3) Embodying difference in unfamiliar landscapes; (4) Being well, and being unfamiliar; and (5) Digital and sonic encounters with unfamiliarity. Educational practitioners, researchers and students will find this book essential for taking forward more inclusive outdoor and youth-led education.

Creating Memorials, Building Identities

Creating Memorials, Building Identities
Author: Alan Rice
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1846317592

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This incisive book investigates memorials to slavery throughout the African diaspora, with an emphasis on Europe. It analyzes not only the increasing number of physical monuments but also the practice of remembering—and forgetting—in museums and plantation houses as well as in contemporary cultural forms like the visual arts, literature, music, and film. A series of case studies ranging from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, from Senegal and Montserrat to Manchester and Paris, explores issues such as the Lancashire cotton famine, black soldiers in World War II, and the 2007 commemoration of abolition in regional museums.

Adoption and Multiculturalism

Adoption and Multiculturalism
Author: Jenny H Wills
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2020-09-04
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0472074512

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Adoption and Multiculturalism features the voices of international scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble common understandings about who is being adopted, who is adopting, and where these acts are taking place, challenging in fascinating ways the tidy master narrative of saviorhood and the concept of a monolithic Western receiving nation. Too often the presumption is that the adoptive and receiving country is one that celebrates racial and ethnic diversity, thus making it superior to the conservative and insular places from which adoptees arrive. The volume’s contributors subvert the often simplistic ways that multiculturalism is linked to transnational and transracial adoption and reveal how troubling multiculturalism in fact can be. The contributors represent a wide range of disciplines, cultures, and connections in relation to the adoption constellation, bringing perspectives from Europe (including Scandinavia), Canada, the United States, and Australia. The book brings together the various methodologies of literary criticism, history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural theory to demonstrate the multifarious and robust ways that adoption and multiculturalism might be studied and considered. Edited by three transnational and transracial adoptees, Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific offers bold new scholarship that revises popular notions of transracial and transnational adoption as practice and phenomenon.