Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life) - Hardcover

When parents form families by reaching across social barriers (the color line, or the boundaries between 'First World' and 'Third World' nations) to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal with issues of difference in adoption? This volume engages writers from both sides of the Atlantic to take a close look at race in transnational and transracial adoption. The contributors tackle questions of how adoption agencies engage race online; how parents understand race as a factor in raising their adopted children; how culture camps engage with parents and children about racial issues; and how social policy shapes the racial aspects of adoption, for better or worse.

Colleen Butler-Sweet, Sacred Heart University, USA Nicole Soojung Callahan, independent scholar, USA Lori Delale-O'Connor, Northwestern University, USA Barbara Fedders, University of North Carolina, USA Carla Goar, Kent State University, USA Barbara Katz Rothman, City University of New York, USA Derek Kirton, University of Kent, UK Kazuyo Kubo, Lesley University, USA Elizabeth Hunter Milovidov, American Graduate School, France Sandra Patton-Imani, Drake University, USA Elizabeth Raleigh, Carleton College, USA Pamela Anne Quiroz, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA Amy Traver, City University of New York, USA