This experimental essay examines citation as a multifaceted feminist keyword and praxis that is political, epistemological, mathematical, personal, temporal, navigational, correctional, capital, methodological, and aspirational. The piece itself is a performative journey through the myriad processes, politics, and poetics of citation, an attempt to embody citation's inherently in/elegant awkwardness, the way it can serve as a deeply personal window into the process of writing, living, and being. This journey reveals how citation, though often portrayed as a neat kind of resolution, remains splayed open and unresolved in numerous ways. It is an attempt to lay bare the process of building toward something that is not entirely one's own, a process routinely contained in a tidy footnote or cradled between two parentheses. Intentionally raising more questions than it answers, the following prompts the reader to interrogate various assumptions about how certain words become keywords, the boundaries of their definitions, and the emotional, epistemological, and conceptual baggage that accompanies them.

On March 26, 2018, Jennifer Hart drove her SUV off a cliff along the northern coast of California with her partner and at least five of their transracially adopted Black children inside. Their remains were recovered at the crash site. As of this writing, a sixth child, Devonte, remains missing and is presumed dead. Four years before the crash, Devonte was famously photographed at the age of twelve, tearfully hugging a white police officer at a Ferguson rally in Portland, Oregon. By simultaneously occupying the feel-good spectacle of interracial intimacy and the everyday tragedy of interracial violence, Devonte embodies and embodied the conditions of contemporary Black life and death in the United States. His disappearance is intimately linked to other forms and histories of American state violence. Through cultural analysis, autoethnography, and poetic intervention, this essay performs wake work as a method for living with the unmournable.

Community geography emphasizes the centrality of community engagement to socially transformative research. This introduction to a special issue of GeoJournal on community geography outlines how this growing subfield provides a model for collaborative action with the crises of our time, from white supremacy through climate change. As the co-editors of this special issue, we summarize the contents of these 14 articles, grouping them by the shared themes of power, institutional partnerships, pedagogy, and methods.

In Chicago, transracial adoption often unites white parents and Black children who are visibly different from one another and share no biogenetic connection. Although anthropologists in the United States have long understood that kinship is not biological, the enduring cultural grounding of Blackness in ancestry and the body repeatedly upsets a solely social understanding of kinship. Within the context of transracial adoption, contested claims to kinship are mediated through the racialized body of the child, namely, through hair and its care. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with adoptive parents, social workers, and hair-care professionals in and around Chicago between 2009 and 2016, this article examines two related forms of Black care centered on the child's hair: (1) aBlack gaze directed toward transracially adopted children, and (2) the outsourcing of Black hair-care and hair-care training to Black women. By asserting racial connection, these practices trouble adoptive claims to kinship. Although transracial adoption appears to challenge biological notions of kinship, it remains foundationally structured by them due to embodied understandings of race. [adoption, kinship, race, care, hair] RESUMEN En Chicago, la adopción transracial a menudo une padres blancos y niños negros quienes son visiblemente diferentes el uno del otro y no comparten conexión biogenética. Aunque los antropólogos en los Estados Unidos han entendido por largo tiempo que el parentesco no es biológico, la base cultural duradera de la negritud en la ascendencia y el cuerpo repetidamente altera un entendimientoúnicamente social del parentesco. Dentro del contexto de adopción transracial, reclamaciones impugnadas al parentesco son mediadas a través del cuerpo racializado del menor, es decir a través de su cabello y su cuidado. Basada en trabajo de campo etnográfico con padres adoptivos, trabajadores sociales y profesionales del cuidado del cabello en y alrededor de Chicago entre 2009 y 2016, este artículo examina dos formas relacionadas de cuidado negro centradas en el cabello del menor: (1) una mirada negra dirigida hacia niños adoptados transracialmente, y (2) la externalización del cuidado del cabello de negro y entrenamiento para el cuidado del cabello a mujeres negras. Al afirmar la conexión racial, estas prácticas alteran reclamaciones adoptivas al parentesco. Aunque la adopción transracial parece retar las nociones biológicas del parentesco, permanece estructurada fundacionalmente por ellas debido al entendimiento corporeizado de raza. [adopción, parentesco, raza, cuidado, cabello]

At First Steps, a small private adoption agency outside Chicago, social workers spent more time processing paperwork than interacting with clients. In addition to mediating the relationship between individuals and the bureaucratic adoption apparatus, these documents created anticipatory (p)re‐kinned subjectivities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2009 and 2016, this article examines the completion and circulation of two different forms of auto/biographical documentation during the adoption process: the birth parent file and the adoptive family profile. These documents played a vital role in the adoption process by simultaneously enabling the creation and dissolution of kinship, through the folding of past, present, and future narratives and possibilities into adoption knowledge and decision making. Aided by the documentary termination of birth parental rights and the imagination of visual and narrative adoptive futures, domestic adoption legally split biological kinship from social kinship, rendering the former past and the latter present/future.