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Transracial adoption is one of the most contentious issues in adoption politics and in the politics of race more generally. Some who support transracial adoption use a theory of colorblindness, while many who oppose it draw a causal connection between race and culture and argue that a black child's racial and cultural interests are best served by black adoptive parents. Hawley Fogg-Davis carves out a middle ground between these positions. She believes that race should not be a barrier to adoption, but neither should it be absent from the minds of prospective adopters and adoption practitioners. Fogg-Davis's argument in favor of transracial adoption is based on the moral and legal principle of nondiscrimination and a theory of race-consciousness she terms "racial navigation." Challenging the notion that children "get" their racial identity from their parents, she argues that children, through the process of racial navigation, should cultivate their self-identification in dialogue with others. The Ethics of Transracial Adoption explores new ground in the transracial adoption debate by examining the relationship between personal and public conceptions of race and racism before, during, and after adoption.

Interracial adoption --- Mixed race adoption --- Trans-racial adoption --- Adoption --- Intercountry adoption --- Race relations --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Transracial adoption

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International adoptions are both high-profile and controversial, with the celebrity adoptions and critically acclaimed movies such as Casa de los babys of recent years increasing media coverage and influencing public opinion. Neither celebrating nor condemning cross-cultural adoption, Karen Dubinsky considers the political symbolism of children in her examination of adoption and migration controversies in North America, Cuba, and Guatemala.Babies Without Borders tells the interrelated stories of Cuban children caught in Operation Peter Pan, adopted Black and Native American children who became icons in the Sixties, and Guatemalan children whose 'disappearance' today in transnational adoption networks echoes their fate during the country's brutal civil war. Drawing from extensive research as well as from her critical observations as an adoptive parent, Karen Dubinsky aims to move adoption debates beyond the current dichotomy of 'imperialist kidnap' versus 'humanitarian rescue.' Integrating the personal with the scholarly, Babies Without Borders exposes what happens when children bear the weight of adult political conflicts.

Intercountry adoption --- Interracial adoption --- Mixed race adoption --- Trans-racial adoption --- Adoption --- Race relations --- International adoption --- Transnational adoption --- Transracial adoption --- America. --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere

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Adopted children --- Clergy --- Interracial adoption --- Nigerians --- Ethnology --- Mixed race adoption --- Trans-racial adoption --- Adoption --- Intercountry adoption --- Race relations --- England --- Nigeria --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- Transracial adoption

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Transnational adoption was once a rarity in the United States, but Americans have been choosing to adopt children from abroad with increasing frequency since the mid-twentieth century. Korean adoptees make up the largest share of international adoptions- 25 percent of all children adopted from outside the United States -but they remain understudied among Asian American groups. What kind of identities do adoptees develop as members of American families and in a cultural climate that often views them as foreigners?

Korean Americans. --- Adoptees --- Intercountry adoption --- Interracial adoption --- International adoption --- Transnational adoption --- Adoption --- Korean Americans --- Ethnology --- Koreans --- Adopted persons --- Adult adoptees --- Mixed race adoption --- Trans-racial adoption --- Race relations --- Transracial adoption

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This volume examines adoption as a way of understanding the practices and ideology of kinship and family more generally. It focuses primarily on adoption practices in the US but will also use examples of adoption and fostering across cultures to put those American adoption practices into a comparative context.

Adoption --- Families --- Intercountry adoption. --- Interracial adoption. --- Interethnic adoption. --- Adoption. --- Child placing --- Foster home care --- Parent and child --- Mixed race adoption --- Trans-racial adoption --- Intercountry adoption --- Race relations --- International adoption --- Transnational adoption --- Interracial adoption --- Transracial adoption