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New Titles Winter/Spring 2008Page: 2/3
From the authors and publishers of 2006's The Color of Violence comes another powerful anthology for anti-racist feminist organizers. Andrea Smith of INCITE! (and author of Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide also in our library) explains in the introduction the series of events that led INCITE! to this project. In this collection, INCITE! brings together pieces by activists on the problems of funding, the anti-politics of the non-profit industrial complex, and how to re-imagine resistance and a transnational network.
Through compelling essays, fiction, poetry and art, the contributors carefully explore this most intimate aspect of globalization. Finally, in the unmediated voices of the adults who have matured within it, we find a rarely-considered view of adoption, an institution that pulls apart old families and identities and grafts new ones. Moving beyond personal narrative, these transracially adopted writers from around the world tackle difficult questions about how to survive the racist and ethnocentric worlds they inhabit, what connects the countries relinquishing their children to the countries importing them, why poor families of color have their children removed rather than supported - about who, ultimately, they are. They unseat conventional understandings of adoption politics, ultimately reframing the controversy as a debate that encompasses human rights, peace, and reproductive justice. |
