Explores the material and psychic impact of Asian transnational and queer social movements on family and kinship in the late twentieth-century.

Preface ix
Introduction: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy 1
1. The Law of Kinship: Lawrence v. Texas and the Emergence of Queer Liberalism 23
2. The Structure of Kinship: The Art of Waiting in The Book of Salt and Happy Together 58
3. The Language of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Two Mothers in First Person Plural 93
4. The Prospect of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Racial Reparation (with Shinhee Han, Ph.D.) 138
5. The Feeling of Kinship: Affect and Language in History and Memory 166
Notes 199
Bibliography 225
Index 239