Introduction
Lisa Cassidy and Mianna Lotz
Part I: Situating Adoption: Histories, Contexts, Boundaries
Chapter 1: Adoption, Race, and Rescue: Transracial Adoption and Lesbian/Gay Ascendency to Whiteness
Bonnie Mann
Chapter 2: Racist Structures of American Indian Interracial Adoption
Susan Devan Harness
Chapter 3: ‘Unsettling’ Adoption: Rethinking Parenting in the Shadow of Colonialism
Mianna Lotz, Colin Macleod, and Taylor-Jai Mcalister
Part II: Knowing Adoption: Epistemic Justice and Injustice
Chapter 4: Adopting Silence: On Adoptee Disenfranchisement and Epistemic Injustice
Ryan Gustafsson and Michele Merritt
Chapter 5: Adoption Stories and Epistemic Neglect
Cara O’Connor
Chapter 6: Racial Belonging and Identity: Impacts on Transracial Adoptees’ Epistemic and Moral Agency
Nabina Liebow and Ryan Gustafsson
Part III: Telling Adoption: The Stories We Tell
Chapter 7: Heavy with Child: Infertile Attachments, Existential Racism, and Geneticism
Frances Latchford
Chapter 8: Adoption in New Media: Changing the Narrative?
Lisa Cassidy
Chapter 9: Excerpt from The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption
Shannon Gibney
Chapter 10: “It’s So Very Layered”: In Conversation with Shannon Gibney
Shannon Gibney, Lisa Cassidy, and Mianna Lotz