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This volume examines the innovative placement of nonwhite (predominantly black) adoptees with white parents. The authors conclude that the majority of families and their adopted children are well integrated into society and that the adoptees now, as adults, do not see themselves as any less black than their in-racially raised peers.

Table of Contents

Preface
Transracial Adoption: An Overview
Court Decisions Involving Transracial Adoptions
Research Design
Demographic Profiles of the Parents and Children
The Parents' Experiences
The Children's Experiences
How the Parents' and Children's Accounts Match Up
Problem Families
Ordinary Families: A Collective Portrait
Postscript
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

RITA J. SIMON is a sociologist and university professor in the School of Public Affairs and the Washington College of Law at the American University in Washington, D.C. She has recently authored The Crimes That Women Commit and the Punishments They Receive (1990) and Women's Movements in America (with Gloria Danziger, Praeger, 1991) and has co-edited with Howard Altstein, Intercountry Adoption: A Multinational Perspective (Praeger, 1991).

HOWARD ALTSTEIN, a Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Maryland, is the co-editor of Intercountry Adoption: A Multinational Perspective. He has also collaborated with Rita Simon on their 20-year study of transracial adoption.

Reviews

?This is an admirable effort.?-Contemporary Sociology

?This is an admirable effort.??Contemporary Sociology

"This is an admirable effort."-Contemporary Sociology