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.
" An] empathetic study of meanings of cross-racial adoption to
adoptees"
"--Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 11, No. 11, Nov. 2001"
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 of
transracial adoptees have been shaped by the policies of the U.S.
child welfare system.
Neither an argument for nor against the practice of transracial
adoption, BirthMarks seeks to counter the dominant public view of
this practice as a panacea to the so-called "epidemic" of
illegitimacy and the misfortune of infertility among the middle
class with a more nuanced view that gives voice to those directly
involved, shedding light on the ways in which Black and multiracial
adoptees articulate their own identity experiences.
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