Description: Blends family history, rhetorical postmemory studies, critical adoption studies, and more to disrupt standard narratives around World War II, Black German experience, race, and adoption.
Review Quotes: "Patton's innovative use of autoethnography highlights how race and racism in the German and American contexts are intertwined in historically complex ways, detailing both the establishment of legal structures to uphold racism and how racism was experienced at the individual level." --Nana Osei-Kofi, author of AfroSwedish Places of Belonging