Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love: Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Adoption Practice

Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Profiling Adoption in the United States Today Chapter 2. "Kids Need Families to Turn Out Right": Public Agency Adopters Chapter 3. Transracial Adoption in Practice Chapter 4. Making Kinship in the Wake of History: Older Child Adoption Chapter 5. The Global Search for "Blue-Ribbon Babies": International Adoption Chapter 6. Inclusive, Exclusive, and Contractual Families: What Adoption Can Tell Us about Kinship Today Notes References Index