{"id":14288,"date":"2011-08-02T15:24:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T20:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=14288"},"modified":"2011-08-02T15:27:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T20:27:33","slug":"adoption-across-race-disparate-treatment-of-native-americans-and-african-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2011\/08\/adoption-across-race-disparate-treatment-of-native-americans-and-african-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoption Across Race: Disparate Treatment of Native Americans and African Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Papke<\/a> has a new paper on SSRN<\/a> that contrasts the laws governing the adoption of Native American and African American children by whites. Once rare in this country, \u201ctransracial\u201d adoptions became common over the latter decades of the twentieth-century. Such adoptions sparked concerns within both Native American and African American communities, but the legal system responded to the concerns quite differently. On the Native American side, the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 gave preference to Native Americans in custody contests over Native American children and undercut state-court jurisdiction over such proceedings in favor of tribal courts. But, on the African American side, the Howard M. Metzenbaum Multiethnic Placement Act has established a \u201ccolor-blind\u201d standard for adoptions. David observes, \u201cRace is not supposed to be a consideration when whites seek to adopt African American children, and it has become increasingly common for whites to \u2018adopt across race.\u2019\u201d (9)<\/p>\n

What explains the different legal treatment of the two types of transracial adoption? David suggests two answers. The \u201cformal\u201d answer \u201cinvolves the unique status of Native Americans under the law of the United States,\u201d which regards tribes as sovereign nations of sorts. But a \u201cmore fundamental explanation\u201d may have something to do with the unique force of racist attitudes towards African Americans and related negative beliefs regarding their parenting abilities.<\/p>\n

David\u2019s paper is entitled \u201cTransracial Adoption: The Adoption of Native American and African American Children by Whites.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Papke has a new paper on SSRN that contrasts the laws governing the adoption of Native American and African American children by whites. Once rare in this country, \u201ctransracial\u201d adoptions became common over the latter decades of the twentieth-century. 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