{"product_id":"the-violence-of-love-kit-w-myers-9780520402485","title":"The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States Volume 74","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Violence of Love \u003c\/i\u003echallenges 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 W. Myers comparatively examines the 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Violence of Love\u003c\/i\u003e confronts this discomfiting reality and rethinks theories of family to offer more capacious understandings of love, kinship, and care. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kit W. Myers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520402480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520402485\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Kit W. Myers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46136298373375,"sku":"9780520402485","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c135473b-e936-449b-b8bb-18355e34139c.jpg?v=1726416267","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-violence-of-love-kit-w-myers-9780520402485","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}