Same Race' Adoption Policy

Anti-racism or Racism

Bibliographic Data

ID2114192
AuthorsMarie Macey (corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume24
Issue4
Pages473-491
Publication date1995-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047279400025393
OpenAlexW2087248472
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited34

This article analyses the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of 'same race' ('black on black') adoption policy in Britain and the accompanying antagonism to transracial adoption. In order to highlight the assumptions on which current policy and practice are based, it refers toinfantadoption, not to the placement of older children who have already experienced family life in particular class and ethnic locations. The author suggests that current policies, amounting to a virtual ban on transracial adoption in both Britain and the USA, are based on a binary opposition between black and white which denies differences within these categories and similarities across them. She also suggests that this portrayal of black and white people in monolithic terms rests on racist stereotyping and is a distortion of the reality of social relations in contemporary society which marginalises large numbers of people whose origins include both black and white. It draws attention away from crucial questions on adoption in heterogeneous, hierarchical, racially ordered societies and has implications for social relationships in such societies

Anti-racism · Ethnic group · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation) · Anthropology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology

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