Research Catalog

Title

White parents, black children : experiencing transracial adoption / Darron T. Smith, Cardell K. Jacobson, and Brenda G. Juárez.

Author

Smith, Darron T., 1965-

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Jacobson, Cardell K., 1941-
• Juárez, Brenda G., 1967-

Description

xiv, 162 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Looks at the difficult issues of race in transracial adoptions -- particularly the most common adoption demographic of white parents with children from other racial and ethnic groups.

Subject

• University of South Alabama
• Interracial adoption > United States
• African Americans > Race identity
• Racism > United States
• Race awareness in children > United States
• United States > Race relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Transracial adoption: considering family, home, and love and the paradoxes of race matters -- Contextualizing transracial adoption: demographic trends, introducing the families -- Transracial adoption, white racial knowledge, and the trouble with "love is enough" -- Research on transracial adoption: what do we know? -- Cross-cultural race pioneers: white adoptive parents learning and not learning about race -- White parents teaching black children about race -- Addressing race with your children: practical advice for white adoptive parents.

ISBN

• 9781442207622 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1442207620 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781442207646 (electronic)
• 1442207647 (electronic)

LCCN

^^2011030667

OCLC

• 724674012
• SCSB-12438718

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library