{"product_id":"selling-transracial-adoption-elizabeth-raleigh-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\u003e provides 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\u003e explicitly focuses on adoption providers andemploys candid interviews with adoption workers, social workers, attorneys, and counselors, as well as observations from adoption conferences and information sessions, toillustrate 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\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439914788\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439914786\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2018","brand":"Elizabeth Raleigh","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935010291967,"sku":"9781439914786","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_845dcd01-33b1-44b1-9ea7-ae61498f8e67.jpg?v=1681417329","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/selling-transracial-adoption-elizabeth-raleigh-9781439914786","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}