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Introduction Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, and Sun Yung Shin

PART ONE: WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM? GLOBAL MIGRATIONS, COLONIAL IMAGINATIONS
Garlic and Salt Soo Na
Love is Colorblind: Reflections of a Mixed Girl Jeni C. Wright
Power of the Periphery Kim Diehl
Finding the Universal: Reflections on a Multi-Prismed Identity Mark Hagland

PART TWO: HOW DID YOU GET HERE?
Economic Miracles Sun Yung Shin
Adoption Myths and Racial Realities in the United States
Dorothy Roberts
The Finer Meaning Kimberly Fardy
Parents in Prison, Children in Crisis
Ellen Barry
Orphaning the Children of Welfare:
“Crack Babies,” Race, and Adoption Reform
Laura Briggs
Shopping for Children in the International Marketplace Kim Park Nelson
Disappeared Children and the Adoptee as Immigrant Patrick McDermott

PART THREE: COLONIAL IMAGINATIONS, GLOBAL MIGRATIONS
If I Pull Away Shandra Spears
Flying the Coop: ICWA and the Welfare of Indian Children
Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark & Kekek Jason Todd Stark
From Orphan Trains to Babylifts: Colonial Trafficking, Empire Building,
and Social Engineering Tobias Hubinette
Scattered Seeds: The Christian Influence on Korean Adoption Jae Ran Kim

PART FOUR: GROWING THROUGH THE PAIN
Hunger Shannon Gibney 
Korean Psych 101: Concepts of Hwa-Byung
in Relation to Korean Adoption
Beth Kyong Lo
Evolve Bryan Thao Worra
Lifelong Impact, Enduring Need John Raible
From Victim to Survivor Ron M.
Tending Denial Heidi Adelsman
Performing Childhood Rachel Quy Collier

PART FIVE: JOURNEYS HOME?
What Lies Beneath: Reframing
"Daughter from Danang"
Catherine Ceniza Choy & Greg Choy
Proud To Be Me Ami Inja Nafzger
Praise Song for Ala Julia Chinyere Oparah

PART SIX: SPEAKING FOR OURSELVES
Researching Adoption: Whose Perspective and What Issues? Kirsten Sloth
Beyond the Vietnam War Adoptions:
RePresenting Our Transracial Lives Indigo Williams Willing
No Longer Alone in This Grief: Service-User Support
for Transracially Adopted People
Perlita Harris
The Making of KAD Nation Sunny Jo
Generation After Generation, We Are Coming Home Sandy White Hawk

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