Black Children - White Parents: A Study Of Transracial Adoption
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; initials penned on the front cover and fep. Some silverfish damage on the rear cover. Weak binding.
At the crossroads of race, family, and identity in post-civil rights America, Black Children - White Parents: A Study of Transracial Adoption presents a rigorous and unflinching examination of one of the most socially charged phenomena of the twentieth century — the adoption of Black children by white families. Authored by researchers Lucille J. Grow and Deborah Shapiro, this landmark report chronicles the lived experiences of transracially adopted children and their families, drawing on empirical data gathered through a study funded by the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The authors detail outcomes across social, psychological, and familial dimensions, offering a rare quantitative and qualitative lens through which to assess how identity, belonging, and race intersect in the domestic sphere. Beyond its statistical findings, this work argues for a more nuanced understanding of child welfare policy at a time when transracial adoption was both a growing practice and a deeply contested one — opposed by organizations such as the National Association of Black Social Workers. Grow and Shapiro's measured, academic tone belies the profound urgency of their subject matter; their findings carry implications that reverberate through social work, civil rights discourse, and family law to this day. A foundational text in adoption studies and race relations scholarship, it leaves the reader asking a question that remains unresolved: can love alone bridge the chasm of racial identity?
Author: Lucille J. Grow & Deborah Shapiro
Format: Paperback
Published: 1974, Research Center, Child Welfare League of America, Inc.
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; initials penned on the front cover and fep. Some silverfish damage on the rear cover. Weak binding.
At the crossroads of race, family, and identity in post-civil rights America, Black Children - White Parents: A Study of Transracial Adoption presents a rigorous and unflinching examination of one of the most socially charged phenomena of the twentieth century — the adoption of Black children by white families. Authored by researchers Lucille J. Grow and Deborah Shapiro, this landmark report chronicles the lived experiences of transracially adopted children and their families, drawing on empirical data gathered through a study funded by the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The authors detail outcomes across social, psychological, and familial dimensions, offering a rare quantitative and qualitative lens through which to assess how identity, belonging, and race intersect in the domestic sphere. Beyond its statistical findings, this work argues for a more nuanced understanding of child welfare policy at a time when transracial adoption was both a growing practice and a deeply contested one — opposed by organizations such as the National Association of Black Social Workers. Grow and Shapiro's measured, academic tone belies the profound urgency of their subject matter; their findings carry implications that reverberate through social work, civil rights discourse, and family law to this day. A foundational text in adoption studies and race relations scholarship, it leaves the reader asking a question that remains unresolved: can love alone bridge the chasm of racial identity?