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The Last Invisible Continent: Essays on Adoption and Identity by Michael Allen Potter

These twelve essays span nearly twenty years of research and activism that chronicle one man’s search for his family. Together, they explore the concept of personal identity from the perspective of someone who was erased completely by adoption in The State of New York. Adoptee Author: Michael Allen Potter Publication Year: 2014Read More →

Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists Edited by Janine Myung Ja, Michael Allen Potter, and Allen L. Vance

This anthology begins with personal accounts and then shifts to a bird’s eye view on adoption from domestic, intercountry and transracial adoptees who are now adoptee rights activists. Along with adopted people, this collection also includes the voices of mothers and a father from the Baby Scoop Era, a modern-dayRead More →

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