false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168407972m/32947.jpg 32947 1 <p>You must have seen one-they're everywhere. Photo blow-ups of Hollywood star Angelina Jolie and Zahara, the child she adopted from Ethiopia, both beaming. "Saved by a Mother's Love"-it's <em>People</em>'s cover story. Zahara, we're told, is thriving. Nothing is said of the grandmother who tried to keep her, broken ties, loss. Adoption is a win-win. Right?</p> <p>Healthy white infants have become hard to locate and expensive to adopt. So people from around the world turn to interracial and intercountry adoption, often, like Jolie, with the idea that while growing their families, they're saving children from destitution. But as <em>Outsiders Within</em> reveals, while transracial adoption is a practice traditionally considered benevolent, it often exacts a heavy emotional, cultural, and even economic toll.</p> <p>Through compelling essays, fiction, poetry, and art, the contributors to this landmark publication carefully explore this most intimate aspect of globalization. Finally, in the unmediated voices of the adults who have matured within it, we find a rarely-considered view of adoption, an institution that pulls apart old families and identities and grafts new ones.</p> <p>Moving beyond personal narrative, these transracially adopted writers from around the world tackle difficult questions about how to survive the racist and ethnocentric worlds they inhabit, what connects the countries relinquishing their children to the countries importing them, why poor families of color have their children removed rather than supported-about who, ultimately, they are. In their inquiry, they unseat conventional understandings of adoption politics, ultimately reframing the controversy as a debate that encompasses human rights, peace, and reproductive justice.</p> 33064 1 8 2006 Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption total:65|5:28|4:29|3:8|2:0|1:0| 65 280 141 10 3 0 false false Mon Apr 06 14:16:15 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 09:54:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu May 24 10:23:25 -0700 2007 Thu May 24 10:25:05 -0700 2007 http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=...

December 5, 2006
Juliana Hu Pegues

Juliana Hu Pegues reviews "Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption," a book of diverse genres of writing by transracial adoptees that transmits the ambiguous and manyfold co...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Sep 19 07:22:59 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 07:35:41 -0700 2007
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