The Violence of Love : Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States - Kit Williams Myers

The Violence of Love

Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States

By: Kit Williams Myers

Paperback | 28 January 2025 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


$99.25

or 4 interest-free payments of $24.81 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 10 to 15 business days

When will this arrive by?
Enter delivery postcode to estimate

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

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 regard to transracial and transnational adoptions. Using interdisciplinary methods of archival, legal, and discursive analysis, Kit Myers comparatively examines the transracial and transnational adoption of Asian, Black, and Native American children by White families in the United States. Showing 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-he 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 discomfiting reality and rethinks theories of family to offer more capacious understandings of love, kinship, and care.

More in Archaeology

Ancestors : A prehistory of Britain in seven burials - Alice Roberts
Colonialism : A Moral Reckoning - Nigel Biggar

RRP $34.99

$31.75

The Dawn of Everything : A New History of Humanity - David Graeber
Archaeology of Ancient Australia - Peter Hiscock

RRP $83.99

$73.75

12%
OFF
The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East - Karen  Sonik
Rural Baths in Roman Britain : A Colonisation of the Senses - Giacomo Savani
Crypt : Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond - Alice Roberts
The Children of Ash and Elm : A History of the Vikings - Neil Price
Istanbul : A Tale of Three Cities - Bettany Hughes

RRP $29.99

$27.90

Buried : An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain - Alice Roberts
Viking Britain : A History - Thomas Williams

RRP $24.99

$23.75