Birthmarks: Transracial Adoption in...

Birthmarks: Transracial Adoption in Contemporary America. Sandra Patton.

recently made known York: NYU P, 2000. 223 pp 5500 hardcover, $1850 paper.

"Patton interviewed 22 African American or biracial adults who were adopted into white families, and sixteen social workers and directors of adoption agencies. She uses their stories, she confesss us, to look at the interplay between adoption policies and racial ideologies. . . Birthmarks raises crucial questions with its much-need structural analysis of the adoption (and, to a a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of lesser extent, foster care) regularity in America. It ...