Adoption
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Terms to use when searching (Remember to use quotation marks (“ “) around phrases when the database allows. Use advanced search when you can. Try combinations of the following search terms:)
- adoption
- transracial
- transcultural
- interracial
- biracial
- mixed race
- family
- children
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The following are links to purchased databases (provide citations for you):
EBSCO MegaFILE database. (Be sure to check box “Full Text” under “Limit your results”):
http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=keh%20
Ethnic NewsWatch database. (Be sure to check box “Full Text Documents Only” under “Limit your results to”):
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=306&DBId=14398&cfc=1#sform
Gale Discovering Collection database (citation at bottom of articles):
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/start.do?prodId=DC&userGroupName=mnkspps
Gale Group database – Kids Infobits:
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits;jsessionid=7F323DE41BB490375D1C5335A42A55B6?locID=mnkspps
Gale Group Student Edition database (citation at bottom of articles) : http://infotrac.galegroup.com/k12/infomark/0/1/1/purl=rc6_STO?sw_aep=mnkspps
ProQuest Newspapers database (Be sure to check box “Full Text Documents Only” under “Limit results to”):
http://proquest.umi.com/login
The following websites are not purchased databases (you have to figure out the citation yourself):
Adoption History Project – Transracial Adoptions (University of Oregon):
http://www.uoregon.edu/~adoption/topics/transracialadoption.htm
http://www.uoregon.edu/~adoption/archive/CACRFICTA.htm
“Commentary - Cultural Stereotypes Can and Do Die: It’s Time to Move on With Transracial Adoption:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/bartholet/JAAPL%20Comment%20on%20Griffith.pdf
Multi-Ethnic Placement Act:
http://adoption.about.com/cs/wantingtoadopt/g/multiethplac.htm
“New Families Redraw Racial Boundaries”- New York Times on the Web:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/102798adoption.html
Statistics on transracial adoption – New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/08/17/us/20060817_ADOPT_GRAPHIC.html
Transracial Adoption:
http://www.familyhelper.net/arc/trans.html
“Transracial Adoption: The Pros and Cons and the Parents’ Perspective”:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/blj/vol20/morrison.pdf
“Transracial Adoption Works, Says Leading Scholarl”:
http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/news/2006_fall/simon.htm