Catalogue by titles / In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories
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| ISS/IRC Code | COM-INTERACIAL ENG-018 |
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| Title | In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories |
| Author | SIMON Rita |
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| Date published/issue | 00-00-2000 |
| Date received | 00-00-0000 |
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| Publisher | Columbia University Press, New York, www.columbia.edu/cu/cup |
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| ISBN | 0 231 11829 5 |
| Type of material | Book |
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| Document description |
Testimony |
| Country concerned |
UNITED STATES |
| Index |
Legislation-comment Interacial Child-interest |
| Free text | The authors introduce the subject of transracial adoption in the United States with a historical perspective of this practice as it grew in the 1960's and later was opposed primarily by the National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) and leaders of black political organizations in the early 1970's. Part I presents the results of studies conducted with transracial adoptive families, including the Simon-Alstein Longitudinal Survey which ran from 1971 to 1991 and that concluded with positive evaluations by transracial adoptees of their experience. Part II is the account of twenty-four interviews with respondents between the ages of 22 and 28 years who were raised in transracial placements. |
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| Degree of interest | Valuable |
| Work area |
Psychology Social work --> |
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| Other potential users |
Adopt-Agency Adopt-Parents Children |