The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States by Kit Myers
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The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States by Kit Myers
The Violence of Love challenges the narrative that adoption is a solely loving act—a narrative that is especially pervasive with transracial and transnational adoptions. Using interdisciplinary analysis, Kit W. Myers 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 and better futures—in contrast to others that are not. Propelled by different types of love, such adoptions attempt to transgress borders yet are attached to structural and symbolic forms of violence in complex ways. The Violence of Love confronts this discomforting reality to offer more capacious understandings of love and kinship.
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