In Their Voices: Black Americans On Transracial Adoption

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Introduction, afterword, and appendix adapted with permission from Javier et al., Handbook of adoption: Implications for researchers, practitioners, and families (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing, 2007).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Roorda, Rhonda M., 1969–

In their voices : Black Americans on transracial adoption / Rhonda M. Roorda.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-231-17220-2 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-231-17221-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-231-54048-3 (e-book)

1. Interracial adoption—United States. 2. Adoptees—Family relationships—United States. 3. African Americans—Race identity. I. Title.

HV875.64.R66 2015

362.734089'00973—DC23

2015011197

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