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Documenting Impossible Realities

Ethnography, Memory, and the As If

By: Susan Bibler Coutin,Barbara Yngvesson

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Documenting Impossible Realities

Ethnography, Memory, and the As If

By: Susan Bibler Coutin,Barbara Yngvesson

Documenting Impossible Realities explores the limitations of conventional accounts through which belonging is documented, focusing on the experiences of adoptees, deportees, migrants, and other exilic populations. Susan Bibler Coutin and Barbara Yngvesson speak to the current historical moment in which the dichotomy between an "above ground" inhabited by dominant groups and an "underground" to which unauthorized immigrants, political exiles, and transnational adoptees are relegated cannot be sustained. This dichotomy was made possible by the illusion that some people do not belong, that some forms of kin are not real, or that certain ways of knowing do not count. To examine accounts that challenge such illusions, Coutin and Yngvesson focus on the spaces between groups, where difference is constituted and where the potential for new forms of relationship may be realized. By juxtaposing and moving between entangled realities and modes of expression, Documenting Impossible Realities conveys the emotional experience of oscillating between being here and gone, legitimate and treated as counterfeit.

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1501768875

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Belonging in an Adopted World

Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption

By: Barbara Yngvesson

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Belonging in an Adopted World

Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption

By: Barbara Yngvesson

Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. In Belonging in an Adopted World, Barbara Yngvesson offers a penetrating exploration of the consequences and implications of this unprecedented movement of children, usually from poor nations to the affluent West. Yngvesson illuminates how the politics of adoption policy has profoundly affected the families, nations, and children involved in this new form of social and economic migration. Starting from the transformation of the abandoned child into an adoptable resource for nations that give and receive children in adoption, this volume examines the ramifications of such gifts, especially for families created through adoption and later, the adopted adults themselves. Bolstered by an account of the author’s own experience as an adoptive parent, and fully attuned to the contradictions of race that shape our complex forms of family, Belonging in an Adopted World explores the fictions that sustain adoptive kinship, ultimately exposing the vulnerability and contingency behind all human identity.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226964485

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Belonging in an Adopted World

Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption

By: Barbara Yngvesson

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Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption

By: Barbara Yngvesson

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University of Chicago Press

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Law and Community in Three American Towns

By: Carol J. Greenhouse,Barbara Yngvesson,David M. Engel

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Law and Community in Three American Towns

By: Carol J. Greenhouse,Barbara Yngvesson,David M. Engel

Many commentators on the contemporary United States believe that current rates of litigation are a sign of decay in the nation’s social fabric. Law and Community in Three American Towns explores how ordinary people in three towns—located in New England, the Midwest, and the South—view the law, courts, litigants, and social order. Carol J. Greenhouse, Barbara Yngvesson, and David M. Engel analyze attitudes toward law and law users as a way of commentating on major American myths and ongoing changes in American society. They show that residents of "Riverside," "Sander County," and "Hopewell" interpret litigation as a sign of social decline, but they also value law as a symbol of their local way of life. The book focuses on this ambivalence and relates it to the deeply-felt tensions express between "community" and "rights" as rival bases of society. The authors, two anthropologists and a lawyer, each with an understanding of a particular region, were surprised to discover that such different locales produced parallel findings. They undertook a comparative project to find out why ambivalence toward the law and law use should be such a common refrain. The answer, they believe, turns out to be less a matter of local traditions than of the ways that people perceive the patterns of their lives as being vulnerable to external forces of change.

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Cornell University Press

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1501725017

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Documenting Impossible Realities

Ethnography, Memory, and the As If

By: Susan Bibler Coutin,Barbara Yngvesson

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Ethnography, Memory, and the As If

By: Susan Bibler Coutin,Barbara Yngvesson

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1501768867

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Law and Community in Three American Towns

By: Carol J. Greenhouse,Barbara Yngvesson,David M. Engel

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By: Carol J. Greenhouse,Barbara Yngvesson,David M. Engel

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Weaving a Family

Untangling Race and Adoption

By: Barbara Katz Rothman

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Weaving a Family

Untangling Race and Adoption

By: Barbara Katz Rothman

Weaving together the sociological, the historical, and the personal, Barbara Katz Rothman looks at the contemporary American family through the lens of race, race through the lens of adoption, and all-race, family, and adoption-within the context of the changing meanings of motherhood.

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Beacon Press

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0807028304

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The Adopted Teen Workbook

Develop Confidence, Strength, and Resilience on the Path to Adulthood

By: Barbara Neiman

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The Adopted Teen Workbook

Develop Confidence, Strength, and Resilience on the Path to Adulthood

By: Barbara Neiman

Written for teens who were adopted, this compassionate workbook will help give you the strength, resilience, and confidence you need to thrive—now and on into adulthood. If you’re like many other adopted teens, you may wonder about your birth family. You may question why you were given up. And you may even grapple with feelings of isolation, abandonment, and broken trust. These feelings are valid and deserve to be addressed. This workbook is designed to help you open the door to questioning, explore painful feelings, and develop the skills needed to be a happy and grounded adult. The Adopted Teen Workbook teaches powerful self-resiliency, mindfulness, and somatic skills to help you explore your unique identity as an adopted teen. You’ll find tools to manage loss and grief, and activities that include checklists, contemplations, skill-building, and journaling to help you chronicle present, past, and future relationships with both your adoptive and birth parents. This workbook begins with your first recognition of having been adopted and the feelings that come with that. You will then explore memories of the past and begin work on understanding emotions of anger, shame, and loss. Finally, you’ll learn ways to heal these wounds, learn to trust, and fully connect with both yourself and others.

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New Harbinger Publications

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1684031435

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Telling Stories

The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History

By: Mary Jo Maynes,Jennifer L. Pierce,Barbara Laslett

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Telling Stories

The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History

By: Mary Jo Maynes,Jennifer L. Pierce,Barbara Laslett

In Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives-autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs-are an important research tool for understanding the relationship between people and their societies. Gathering examples from throughout the world and from premodern as well as contemporary cultures, they draw from labor history and class analysis, feminist sociology, race relations, and anthropology to demonstrate the value of personal narratives for scholars and students alike. Telling Stories explores why and how personal narratives should be used as evidence, and the methods and pitfalls of their use. The authors stress the importance of recognizing that stories that people tell about their lives are never simply individual. Rather, they are told in historically specific times and settings and call on rules, models, and social experiences that govern how story elements link together in the process of self-narration. Stories show how individuals' motivations, emotions, and imaginations have been shaped by their cumulative life experiences. In turn, Telling Stories demonstrates how the knowledge produced by personal narrative analysis is not simply contained in the stories told; the understanding that takes place between narrator and analyst and between analyst and audience enriches the results immeasurably.

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0801459036

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Book's by Barbara Yngvesson

Documenting Impossible Realities

Documenting Impossible Realities

Belonging in an Adopted World

Belonging in an Adopted World

Belonging in an Adopted World

Belonging in an Adopted World

Law and Community in Three American Towns

Law and Community in Three American Towns

Documenting Impossible Realities

Documenting Impossible Realities

Law and Community in Three American Towns

Law and Community in Three American Towns

Weaving a Family

Weaving a Family

The Adopted Teen Workbook

The Adopted Teen Workbook

Telling Stories

Telling Stories

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