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Examines the innovative placement of nonwhite adoptees with white parents. As well as reviewing recent court decisions involving race as a factor in child custody, the authors examine the research to date on this topic, including adoption policy and practice carried out by some adoption agencies.

Transracial adoption is a controversial area of research and practice in child welfare. The authors, a sociologist and a social worker, have contributed much to its understanding through a series of studies that began in 1972 of white families that have adopted nonwhite (mostly black) children. This book reports on the latest phase of their research, which was based on interviews with most of the families and adoptees in the original sample. T...