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While focused on serving children and families, the adoption
industry must also generate sufficient revenue to cover an agency's
operating costs. With its fee-for-service model, Elizabeth Raleigh
asks, How does private adoption operate as a marketplace? Her
eye-opening book, Selling Transracial Adoption, provides a
fine-grained analysis of the business decisions in the adoption
industry and what it teaches us about notions of kinship and race.
Adoption providers, Raleigh declares, are often tasked with
pitching the idea of transracial adoption to their mostly white
clientele. But not all children are equally "desirable," and
transracial adoption-a market calculation-is hardly colorblind.
Selling Transracial Adoption explicitly focuses on adoption
providers andemploys candid interviews with adoption workers,
social workers, attorneys, and counselors, as well as observations
from adoption conferences and information sessions, toillustrate
how agencies institute a racial hierarchy-especially when the
supply of young and healthy infants is on the decline. Ultimately,
Raleigh discovers that the racialized practices in private adoption
serve as a powerful reflection of race in America.
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