Birthmarks : : Transracial Adoption in Contemporary America
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Introduction : narratives of adoption, roots, and identity -- Origin narratives -- Navigating racial routes -- Searching : I have a family with no blood -- Producing "il/legitimate" citizens : transracial adoption and welfare reform -- Conclusion : narratives of identity, race, and nation.
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Decent, but not quite what I was looking for submitted by chelsiegarrett on July 8, 2015, 9:25am This is a book about an ethnographic study done by Sandra Patton. She interviews adoptees who were adopted into white families. She asks them questions about their identity and such. Most of the book just relates her findings, but doesn't offer much help with what could be done to help these kinds of children. Still, not a bad read.
PUBLISHED
New York : New York University Press, 2000.
Year Published: 2000
Description: x, 223 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
081476682X :
0814766811 (cloth : alk. paper)
SUBJECTS
Interracial adoption.
Adoptees -- Interviews.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Adoption -- Government policy.