Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transnational and Transracial Adoption

by Laura Briggs

Book Overview

In Somebody's Children, Laura Briggs examines the social and cultural forces-poverty, racism, economic inequality, and political violence-that have shaped transracial and transnational adoption in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first. Focusing particularly on the experiences of those who have lost their children to adoption, Briggs analyzes the circumstances under which African...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822351617
• ISBN13: 9780822351610
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"