Recent adoption policy changes are based on assumptions that race
is no longer relevant and that if government officials and
activists would just get out of the way, adoption would provide one
means of eradicating the fixation on race and racism. Adoption in a
Color-Blind Society examines the public presentation of private
adoption agency Web sites and 'race talk' in adoption chat rooms to
lay bare the lie of color-blind discourse and reveal that rather
than eroding, the meaning of race has shifted. The private adoption
market provides an illustration of Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's thesis
of the Latinization of the U.S. as biracial children are either
'downgraded' or 'upgraded' into a tri-racial system of categories
depending at least in part upon their heritage. Drawing also on
popular adoption literature and information in the public domain,
the book provides a critical interpretation of the discursive
practices of private adoption and argues that despite the current
discourse of equity in contemporary adoption, African American
children continue to be marginalized as bargain basement deals.
Color-blind individualism extends beyond the U.S. to our new global
reality where children are simply another commodity within the
transnatinal marketplace of adoption.
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