Kinship Between Transracial Adoptees

Abstract

If loss of our first families and communities is the most fundamental, the transracial adoptees’ non-white/black/brown identity is the idiom of its expression. This paper will explore the intersection of familial and community loss with racial/cultural loss, as a potent site of alternative kinship networks. I argue that the subjectivity of the transracial adoptee presents a unique opportunity and presence for positive identity and community formation within the negative of absence.