{"product_id":"selling-transracial-adoption-families-markets-and-the-color-line-9781439914786","title":"Selling Transracial Adoption: Families, Markets, and the Color Line","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile 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, \u003ci\u003eSelling Transracial Adoption, \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a fine-grained analysis of the business decisions in the adoption industry and what it teaches us about notions of kinship and race. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdoption providers, Raleigh declares, are often tasked with pitching the idea of transracial adoption to their mostly white clientele. But not all children are equally \"desirable,\" and transracial adoption--a market calculation--is hardly colorblind. \u003ci\u003eSelling Transracial Adoption \u003c\/i\u003eexplicitly focuses on adoption providers and\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eemploys candid interviews with adoption workers, social workers, attorneys, and counselors, as well as observations from adoption conferences and information sessions, to\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eillustrate how agencies institute a racial hierarchy--especially when the supply of young and healthy infants is on the decline. Ultimately, Raleigh discovers that the racialized practices in private adoption serve as a powerful reflection of race in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Raleigh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439914786\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Raleigh\u003c\/b\u003e is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44715300651123,"sku":"9781439914786","price":46.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_627f71e8-13ca-4cbe-a985-a89ad4b5961d.jpg?v=1775841434","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/selling-transracial-adoption-families-markets-and-the-color-line-9781439914786","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}