Selling Transracial Adoption Families, Markets, and the Color Line

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Author / Creator:	Raleigh, Elizabeth Yoon Hwa 1977- VerfasserIn
Imprint:	Philadelphia Temple University Press 2018 Philadelphia Temple University Press 2018 Berlin Knowledge Unlatched
Description:	1 Online-Ressource (X, 237 Seiten)
Language:	English
Subject:	Families. Interracial adoption. Social service. Families Interracial adoption Social service
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11660309

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Varying Form of Title:	Selling Transracial Adoption, Families, Markets, and the Color Line
ISBN:	9781439914793 1439914796 143991477X (print) 9781439914779 (print)
Summary:	"Chosen Children" examines the role of the adoption marketplace in shaping how transracial adoptive families are sorted and matched, and analyzes what these practices suggest about race in the United States. In contrast to previous work on race and adoption markets that focus on the experiences of adoptive parents, Raleigh's project focuses on adoption workers--social workers, attorneys, and counselors. Taking a market approach that treats adoptive parents as consumers and children as commodities, Raleigh brings together interviews with adoption practitioners, participant observation at adoption information sessions, and adoption statistics in order to demonstrate how the downturn in supply of "adoptable honorary white children" (which she defines as Asian and hispanic children) led to the increased popularity of the transracial adoption of foreign-born and biracial black children.

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