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Table of Contents
Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
1: Introduction: Exploring Swedish Adoption Desire
The Adopting Nation
Goodness Questioned
Exploring Swedish Adoption Desire
Research and Resistance
Outline
References
2: Race, Colonialism, Eugenics, and International Adoption in Sweden
Challenging the Myths of Swedish Exceptionalism
Race Biology, Race Hygiene, and Eugenics
"The Whitest of the White": Shared Belief in a Superior Swedish/Nordic Race and the Fear of Degeneration
1930s-1975: Eugenics in Practice
The Post-WWII "Colour-Blind Turn": The Domestication of Swedish National Identity
International Adoption in Sweden
Stages of International Adoption
The Pioneers and "Naivists"
Opening the Adoption Market
Peak Years... And a Steady Decline
From a Goodness Discourse to a Rights Discourse
Present Situation
Colonial Amnesia and Swedish Exceptionalism
References
3: From Flat-Packed Furniture to Fascism: Transracial Adoptees in Myths of Swedish Goodness
Adoption and the Rise and Fall of Swedish Goodness
Good and Evil White Nationalists
IKEA: Good White Nationalists?
The Sweden Democrats: Evil White Nationalists?
Comparing the Campaigns
References
4: Eating the [M]Other: Consumption Fantasies in Swedish Adoption Narratives
Eating the Other
Adoption Texts
Food Race Metaphors in a Colour-Blind Discourse
Smooth and Coffee Coloured
"The African Blood Pumps Through My Veins"
Awakening Primordial Senses
Reinforcing White Supremacist Patriarchal Structures
References
5: "Too Brown to Be Swedish, Too Swedish to Be Anything Else": Mimicry and Menace in Swedish Adoption Narratives
Mimicry
Mimicry and the Swedish Adoptee
Desired for a Difference That Is Almost the Same
In-Between
Hyper-Visibility
100% Swedes: Excess and Disavowal
Mimicry As Resistance?
References
6: Representation and Resistance: Challenging Swedish Adoption Desire
Myth
The Chile-Sweden Adoption Scandal
"No Ms̀ Silencio!"
International Reporting
Language as Resistance
Fingerprints, Crime, and Punishment
Myth and the Adoptee Body
Disrupting Myth-Level Representation?
Adopters
Exnomination: Silences of Power
The Privation of History
The Inoculation of Evil: One Bad Apple
The Passing of Good Sweden?
References
7: Conclusion
Summary
Introduction: Exploring Swedish Adoption Desire
Race, Colonialism, Eugenics, and International Adoption
From Flat-Packed Furniture to Fascism: Transracial Adoptees in Myths of Swedish Goodness
Eating the (M)Other: Consumption Fantasies in Swedish Adoption Narratives
Too Brown to Be Swedish, Too Swedish to Be Anything Else: Mimicry and Menace in Swedish Adoption Narratives
Representation and Resistance: Challenging Swedish Adoption Desire
Overall Conclusion
Resistance
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
1: Introduction: Exploring Swedish Adoption Desire
The Adopting Nation
Goodness Questioned
Exploring Swedish Adoption Desire
Research and Resistance
Outline
References
2: Race, Colonialism, Eugenics, and International Adoption in Sweden
Challenging the Myths of Swedish Exceptionalism
Race Biology, Race Hygiene, and Eugenics
"The Whitest of the White": Shared Belief in a Superior Swedish/Nordic Race and the Fear of Degeneration
1930s-1975: Eugenics in Practice
The Post-WWII "Colour-Blind Turn": The Domestication of Swedish National Identity
International Adoption in Sweden
Stages of International Adoption
The Pioneers and "Naivists"
Opening the Adoption Market
Peak Years... And a Steady Decline
From a Goodness Discourse to a Rights Discourse
Present Situation
Colonial Amnesia and Swedish Exceptionalism
References
3: From Flat-Packed Furniture to Fascism: Transracial Adoptees in Myths of Swedish Goodness
Adoption and the Rise and Fall of Swedish Goodness
Good and Evil White Nationalists
IKEA: Good White Nationalists?
The Sweden Democrats: Evil White Nationalists?
Comparing the Campaigns
References
4: Eating the [M]Other: Consumption Fantasies in Swedish Adoption Narratives
Eating the Other
Adoption Texts
Food Race Metaphors in a Colour-Blind Discourse
Smooth and Coffee Coloured
"The African Blood Pumps Through My Veins"
Awakening Primordial Senses
Reinforcing White Supremacist Patriarchal Structures
References
5: "Too Brown to Be Swedish, Too Swedish to Be Anything Else": Mimicry and Menace in Swedish Adoption Narratives
Mimicry
Mimicry and the Swedish Adoptee
Desired for a Difference That Is Almost the Same
In-Between
Hyper-Visibility
100% Swedes: Excess and Disavowal
Mimicry As Resistance?
References
6: Representation and Resistance: Challenging Swedish Adoption Desire
Myth
The Chile-Sweden Adoption Scandal
"No Ms̀ Silencio!"
International Reporting
Language as Resistance
Fingerprints, Crime, and Punishment
Myth and the Adoptee Body
Disrupting Myth-Level Representation?
Adopters
Exnomination: Silences of Power
The Privation of History
The Inoculation of Evil: One Bad Apple
The Passing of Good Sweden?
References
7: Conclusion
Summary
Introduction: Exploring Swedish Adoption Desire
Race, Colonialism, Eugenics, and International Adoption
From Flat-Packed Furniture to Fascism: Transracial Adoptees in Myths of Swedish Goodness
Eating the (M)Other: Consumption Fantasies in Swedish Adoption Narratives
Too Brown to Be Swedish, Too Swedish to Be Anything Else: Mimicry and Menace in Swedish Adoption Narratives
Representation and Resistance: Challenging Swedish Adoption Desire
Overall Conclusion
Resistance