Transracial Families, Race, and Whiteness in Sweden

Creating White Australia: new perspectives on race, whiteness and history

Transracial and International Adoption: Mothers, Hierarchy, Race, and Feminist Legal Theory

Race and ethnicity in fragile families.

Robert Hummer and Erin Hamilton note that the prevalence of fragile families varies substantially by race and ethnicity. African Americans and Hispanics have the highest prevalence; Asian Americans, the lowest; and whites fall somewhere in the middle. The share of unmarried births is lower among most foreign-born mothers than among their U.S.-born ethnic counterparts. Immigrant-native differenc...

Outcomes of Transracial Adoption

In the United States, the first transracial adoption placements in substantial numbers were of Japanese and Chinese children following World War II. During the 1950s, after the Korean War, Korean children were adopted by American families in large numbers. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, more than 10,000 African-American children were adopted by white parents. Subsequently, however, this pra...

Residence, Race, and Age of Poor Families in 1966

IN RECENT YEARS much research in the United States has been devoted to the study of poverty. Certain broad characteristics have emerged from the aggregate poverty data.l These generalities are well-known to the reader : Disproportionate numbers of the poor are elderly, beyond their working years. Although most poor people are white, nonwhite families are far more likely to be poor than are whit...