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ISSUES - Transracial Adoption


Click on the links below to read articles, stories, studies, etc. discussing this issue. Also, check out these related weblog archive pages:

  • A Mixed Blog: Transracial Adoption

    New Families Redraw Racial Boundaries
    by Tamar Lewin (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/102798adoption.html (October 23, 1998)

    Bringing home love
    by Greg Nikkel (Weyburn Review)
    http://www.weyburn-review.sk.ca/News/9827/adopt.html (July 8, 1998)

    Transracial Adoptin
    (Family Law - Drake University)
    http://www.mac.drake.edu/FamLaw/Feb25Essy.html (Spring 1998)

    Judge agrees with mom and girl that race shouldn't break their family apart
    by Jack Kresnak (Detroit Free Press)
    http://www.freepress.com/news/locoak/qadopt17.htm (April 17, 1998)

    Love Should Be Color Blind
    by Randall Kennedy (Intellectual Capital)

    http://www.intellectualcapital.com/issues/98/0205/icopinions4.asp (February 5, 1998)

    Letters: Race is not a primary factor in a child's adoption
    (The Detroit News)
    http://detnews.com/EDITPAGE/9802/04/spletters/spletters.htm (February 4, 1998)

    Couple's lawsuit stirs controversy over merits of mixed-race adoption
    by David Josar (The Detroit News)

    http://detnews.com/1998/metro/9801/20/01200130.htm (January 20, 1998)

    Interracial adoption: One couple's story - Part Two
    by Carol Lloyd and Hank Pellissier (Salon)

    http://www.salon.com/aug97/mothers/adoption970805.html (August 5, 1997)

    Interracial adoption: One couple's story - Part One
    by Carol Lloyd and Hank Pellissier (Salon)

    http://www.salon.com/aug97/mothers/adoption970804.html (August 4, 1997)

    Texas conflict reflects debate on adoption among races
    by Sue Ann Pressley (The Detroit News)
    http://detnews.com/1997/outlook/9701/05/01050006.htm (January 5, 1997)

    Pretending to Love
    by Barrie Maguire

    http://www.newsart.com/m/personal/essays/eamy.htm(1997)

    *501 A Hand To Rock The Cradle: Transracial Adoption, The Multiethnic Placement Act, and a Proposal For the Arkansas General Assembly
    by Chip Chiles (Arkansas Law Review and Bar Association)
    http://lawreview.uark.exu/Online_Edition/articles96_97/articletexts/chilestxt.html (1996)

    After Adopting a Biracial Child
    by Mitch Pearlstein (Star Tribune)
    http://www.amexp.org/strib/strib12896.htm (December 8, 1996)

    Thinking and Teaching About Transracial Adoption
    by Twila L. Perry (American Bar Association - FOCUS)
    http://scratch.abanet.org/publiced/focus/f96adop2.html (Fall 1996)

    Transracial Adoption: A Community Conversation
    by Gail Leftwich (American Bar Association - FOCUS)
    http://www.abanet.org/publiced/focus/f96adop.html (Fall 1996)

    Knocking Down the Barriers to Adoption
    by Representative Dave Camp (The American Sound)
    http://www.house.gov/talent/sound/camp.html

    Transracial Adoption Study
    by Amanda Baden
    http://www.msu.edu/user/badenama/index.html

    Interracial Adoption: Is It the Logical Choice?
    by Terra Pierre
    http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~scoggins/306preview/student_projects/pierre/index.html

    Fostering a Positive Racial Identity in our Transracially-Adopted Children
    by Todd Chas
    (Cafe Progressive)
    http://users.lanminds.com/~jchas/om/identity.html

    Transracial Adoptive Parenting: A Black White Community Issue
    by Leora Neal and Al Stumph (Association of Black Social Workers)
    http://www.greatinfo.com/absw/tap.html

    Transracial and International Adoptions
    by Shea Grimm (Adoptee's Right to Know)
    http://www.plumsite.com/shea/transr.html

    The Controversy on Transracial Adoption
    by Genee Swift
    http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~scoggins/306preview/student_projects/swift/adoption.html



    Legal and Government Resources



    Intercultural & Transracial Adoption Organizations/Websites



    Books on Transracial Adoption


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