Women, Gender, And Sexuality Studies WGSS 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Intercultural Competence, Social Inequality, Interracial Adoption
6 Nov 2016
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12:43 pm: what is reproduced, specifically with regard to race, if we consider adoption as a technology, and how is this accomplished, predominately white, middle class, heterosexual couples adopt children from other parts of the world. Relative absence of white children in the us adoption pool: trans-racial adoption in the us. White families who adopt korean, chinese, latin american, and eastern. European (who may be racially white or asian: children can either assimilate to white culture. Or immersion by having ties to home country. Child is initially racialized according to a notion of race as something passed from parents to a child. No substantial discourse of race in the process of adoption and parenting. Becomes white through everyday technologies of childhood. However, they must claim and negotiation their whiteness. More difficult maybe for a black or latino child than asian because of racial hierarchies in the us: technologies of racialization are powerful in trans-racial adoption in particular because:
