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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Raleigh, Elizabeth Yoon Hwa (1977-....)
Titre(s) : Selling transracial adoption [Texte imprimé] : families, markets, and the color line / Elizabeth Raleigh
Publication : Philadelphia : Temple university press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-237 p.) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 215-228. Index
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 and employs
candid interviews with adoption workers, social workers, attorneys, and counselors,
as well as observations from adoption conferences and information seto illustratelustrate
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
Sujet(s) : Adoption interethnique -- États-Unis
Adoption internationale -- États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781439914779 (rel.). - ISBN 143991477X. - ISBN 9781439914786. - ISBN 1439914788.
- ISBN 9781439914793 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45318739s
Notice n° :
FRBNF45318739
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