Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States Volume 2

by Kathryn A. Mariner

Book Overview

Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kinship charts the entanglement of institutional structures and ideologies of family, race, and class to argue that adoption is powerfully implicated in the question of who can have a future in the twenty-first-century United States. With a unique focus on the role that social workers and other professionals play in mediating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520299566
• ISBN13: 9780520299566
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"