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oapen-20.500.12657-307622021-11-15T08:22:50Z Selling Transracial Adoption Raleigh, Elizabeth Sociology Adoption Child protection Ethiopia Foster care International adoption Interracial adoption Race and ethnicity in the United States Census Social work White people "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. 2018-01-24 23:55 2017-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-07 03:00:30 2020-04-01T13:12:23Z 2020-04-01T13:12:23Z 2018-01-01 book 642740 OCN: 1026493592 9781439914786;9781439914793 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30762 eng application/pdf n/a 642740.pdf Temple University Press 10.2307/j.ctt21216x4 101205 10.2307/j.ctt21216x4 126074ec-499d-4e24-a17f-09a9c593ec01 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781439914786;9781439914793 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 101205 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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"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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