Selling transracial adoption : families, markets, and the color line

Selling transracial adoption : families, markets, and the color line / Elizabeth Raleigh.

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, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Interracial adoption.
Social service.
Families.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Work.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Adoption & Fostering.
Families
Interracial adoption
Social service
Online Access:Click for online access
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.

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