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Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
1995
RECLAIMING SELF-DETERMINATION: A CALL FOR INTRARACIAL ADOPTION
Jacinda T. Townsend *
[* J.D. 1995, Duke University School of Law.]
The wholesale marketing of Black children to suit the economic
interests of others was one of the cruelest aspects of slavery. Sons
and daughters who were traded away from their parents would later
struggle in vain to remember their families, their customs, and their
countries of origin. Even the extended families which evolved in the
transient slave communities were continually fragmented as children
and their caretakers were merchanted to different plantations
according to the whims of White slavemasters.[1]
Although due to quite different circumstances, today the Black
community continues to lose its children. At present, government
sponsored entities,[2] overlooking the potentially harmful
consequences of transracial adoption,[3] remove Black children from
their communities through transracial adoption with Whites who are
unable to secure children of their own race.[4]
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
1995
RECLAIMING SELF-DETERMINATION: A CALL FOR INTRARACIAL ADOPTION
Jacinda T. Townsend *
[* J.D. 1995, Duke University School of Law.]
The wholesale marketing of Black children to suit the economic
interests of others was one of the cruelest aspects of slavery. Sons
and daughters who were traded away from their parents would later
struggle in vain to remember their families, their customs, and their
countries of origin. Even the extended families which evolved in the
transient slave communities were continually fragmented as children
and their caretakers were merchanted to different plantations
according to the whims of White slavemasters.[1]
Although due to quite different circumstances, today the Black
community continues to lose its children. At present, government
sponsored entities,[2] overlooking the potentially harmful
consequences of transracial adoption,[3] remove Black children from
their communities through transracial adoption with Whites who are
unable to secure children of their own race.[4]
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