...Mark Chia-Yon Jerng Science fiction poses particular dilemmas for referential reading practices privileged in ethnic literary studies and African American literature. Because science fiction often requires the reader to discern the governing norms and values of its constructed, alternative world...

... the structures of white supremacy. Jerng’s Racial Worldmaking provides a sweeping and important analysis of how white supremacy organizes what we anticipate, experience, and perceive in our everyday world. It does so by tracing several generic patterns of storytelling across the twentieth century...

... with the epistemological dimensions of SF. Beginning with Mark Chia-Yon­ Jerng’s “A World of Difference: Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren and the Protocols of Racial Reading,” which explores how the world-­making dimensions of the genre illustrate the social deter...

..., 664–66. Jerng, Mark Chia-­Yon. “A World of Difference: Samuel Delany’s Dhalgren and the Protocols of Racial Reading,” 251–78. Jones, Laura. Review: Adams, Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America, 670–73. Review: Beard, Acts of Narrative Resistance: Women’s...

...Karen Dubinsky Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature . By Callahan Cynthia . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2011 . 190 pp. $70.00 . Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging . By Jerng Mark C. . Minneapolis : Univ...

...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...

...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...

...: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp. Paper, $25.00. Contemporary interest in adoption stories seems to be insatiable. Flip though almost any...

...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...

...: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp. Paper, $25.00. Contemporary interest in adoption stories seems to be insatiable. Flip though almost any...

...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...

...: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp. Paper, $25.00. Contemporary interest in adoption stories seems to be insatiable. Flip though almost any...

...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...

...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...

...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...

...: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp. Paper, $25.00. Contemporary interest in adoption stories seems to be insatiable. Flip though almost any...

..., Karen. Review: Callahan, Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adop- tion in American Literature, 452–54. Review: Jerng, Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging, 452–54. Ensor, Sarah. “Spinster Ecology: Rachel Carson, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Nonreproductive Futurity,” 409–35...

... with race might better be described as confusion over the shifting modalities of race, as his traditional views about identity and belonging always exist in an imagined tension with Theresa’s racial deconstructions. As Mark Jerng notes, “the novel exhibits a strict seg- regation of where race...