http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/helen-hunt-jackson Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:06:57 -0400 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:06:57 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/774/controversial-kin-transracial-adoption-in-hope-leslie-and-ramona By Melissa N. Gilstrap - Critics often ignore transracial adoption as a literary theme in both Catharine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie; Or, Early Times in Massachusetts (1827) and Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona, A Story (1884), as these two texts’ portrayals of the occurrence are often complicated and particularly ambiguous. Yet, understanding these two authors’ depictions of same-race and transracial adoptions is crucial to realizing they were imagining a new ethical paradigm for contact between whites and Native Americans — that of cross-racial care instead of cross-racial violence. This paper argues... Sun, 20 Oct 2013 06:31 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/774/controversial-kin-transracial-adoption-in-hope-leslie-and-ramona