Briggs, Laura. "Putting the Children of Welfare Mothers in Orphanages: 'Crack Babies,' Race, and Adoption Reform," in Jane Jeong Trenka, Chinyere Oparah, and Sun Yung Shin, eds. Outsiders Wtihin: Racial Crossings and Adoption Politics (forthcoming August 2006, South End).
Articles |
Briggs, Laura. “Mother, Child, Race, Nation: The Visual Iconography of Rescue and the Politics of Transnational and Transracial Adoption,” Gender & History 15 (2003):179-200.
Ortiz, Ana Teresa and Laura Briggs, “Crack, Abortion, the Culture of Poverty, and
Welfare Cheats: The Making of the 'Healthy White Baby Crisis,'” Social Text 75
(September 2003): 39-57.
Briggs, Laura. "Medicalizing Reproductive Economies: From the 'Bio-Underclass' to Middle-Class Anxiety to Transnational Adoption," Yale University, History of Medicine and Science, 23 Jan. 2006.
Conferences and Presentations
Briggs, Laura. "Gay Families, Neoliberalism, and Organ Theft.
" Uniersity of Arizona, LGBT Studies Brown Bag, 30 Nov. 2005.
Briggs, Laura. "History of Foster Care." Testimony on the Proposal for Strengthening Families, November 2005.
Briggs, Laura. "Sex, Reproduction, and Foreign Policy: From Abu Ghraib to Transnational Adoption" University of Illinois at Chicago, 4 Oct. 2004.
Briggs, Laura. "Communities Resisting Interracial Adoption: The Indian Child Welfare Act and the NABSW Statement of 1972." ASAIK Conference on Adoption and Culture, Tampa. 18 Nov. 2005.
Briggs, Laura. "Locating Adoption in Relation to State Processes: War, Economies, Trauma, Politics." Universiity of Michigan, 19-22 May 2005.