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Selling transracial adoption families, markets, and the color line

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Raleigh, Elizabeth Yoon Hwa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia Temple University Press 2018, 2018©2018
Subjects:
Families
Family & Relationships / Adoption & Fostering
Social Science / Social Work
Social Service
Interracial Adoption
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General
Online Access:
Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Staying Afloat in a Perfect Storm
  • 2. Uneasy Consumers: The Emotion Work of Marketing Adoption
  • 3. Transracial Adoption as a Market Calculation
  • 4."And You Get to Black": Racial Hierarchies and the Black-Non-Black Divide
  • 5. Selling Transracial Adoption: Social Workers' Ideals and Market Concessions
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-228) and index

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