Neoliberalism, Global “Whiteness,” and the Desire for Adoptive Invisibility in US Parental Memoirs of Eastern European Adoption
<p>This essay explores the recent surge in US parental memoirs of adoption from Russia and Ukraine. This analysis of the most influential works speculatively highlights underexamined connections between the US media focus on adoption failures and the centrality of race in adoptions fro...
Main Author: | Claudia Sadowski-Smith |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2011-12-01
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Series: | Journal of Transnational American Studies |
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Online Access: | https://submit.escholarship.org/ojs/index.php/acgcc_jtas/article/view/7128 |
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