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"[An] empathetic study of the meanings of cross-racial adoption to adoptees."— Law and Politics Book Review Can White parents teach their Black children African American culture and history? Can they impart to them the survival skills necessary to survive in the racially stratified United States? Concerns over racial identity have been at the center of controversies over transracial adoption since the 1970s, as questions continually arise about whether White parents are capable of instilling a positive sense of African American identity in their Black children. Through in-depth interviews with adult transracial adoptees, as well as with social workers in adoption agencies, Sandra Patton, herself an adoptee, explores the social construction of race, identity, gender, and family and the ways in which these interact with public policy about adoption. Patton offers a compelling overview of the issues at stake in transracial adoption. She discusses recent changes in adoption and social welfare policy which prohibit consideration of race in the placement of children, as well as public policy definitions of "bad mothers" which can foster coerced aspects of adoption, to show how the lives

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Author

Sandra Patton-Imani; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

New York : New York University Press, 2000.

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585424774

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Family & Relationships, Social Science, Sociology