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Title: Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption by Randall Kennedy ISBN: 0-375-40255-1 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing!
Comment: Mixed race relationships are a big issue today. The recent imbroglio over Sen. Strom Thurmond's half Black daughter reveals the interest in the subject. Professor Randall Kennedy's book, however,is simply a string of stories that already have been told. Although well written, the book lacks a common thread and it reads like a lengthy monologue about interracial relationships. I find Rachel Moran's book Interracial Intimacy, with which I do not agree with on many points, much more thoughtful, enlightening, and challenging intellectually. Unlike Kennedy, Moran looks well beyond Black/white relationships. In this way, Kennedy appears to have been caught in a time warp.
Rating: 3
Summary: wrong analysis
Comment: Here we see an analysis that is not only wrong, but illogical. The main argument here, above all the other rhetoric, is that adoption of interracial children should be the norm among people and that it is incorrect for the agencies to 'match' the race of the children with the parents. Rather the argument is the parents should just be given whatever comes along regardless of the fact that the parents might like to raise a kid that resembles themselves, thus making it easier for the child to feel that his parents are actually his parents.
The truth of the matter is people don't want interracial children. Why? Because people have a natural instinct to prefer what they are. Just as a dog would choose a puppy from its own breed a human will do the same. Many couples have worked hard to adopt 'unwanted' children, for instance both my uncles have inter-racial kids that are adopted. And these people who are willing to have these children make up for all the people who prefer like-race children.
This book argues the opposite. That its actually better for people to adopt outside their race. But what is the motive here? ISnt the motive secretly that the people adopting are narrow minded and believe that by adopting a child from another race that they are being 'diverse'. The reality is that a child does not make someone 'tolerant' and it doesn't help the child to end up as a pawn in the race game that pervades America. It is universally a fact that minorities refuse to adopt children that are inter-racial, in fact minorities frequently try to adopt children that are as 'pure' which is to say one race as possible. Thus this book is pitched to European-Americans asking them to adopt these 'unwanted children' and arguing that those that refuse to do so are 'racist'. But what about the minorities, aren't they just as racist? This book simply ignores this fact. And ignores reality.
Seth J. Frantzman
Rating: 5
Summary: A painfully beautiful book
Comment: The author pulls the mirror up to our faces and makes us confront our own prejudices today and mourn our prejudices of the past. Of all the things I come away with in this book, I wholeheartedly support the author in his view that race matching in adoption is a destructive practice in all its various guises. Yes, 'it ought to be replaced by a system under which children in need of homes may be assigned to the care of foster or adoptive parents as quickly as reasonably possible.' We have several couples in our neighborhood who have adopted children of other races, and two black children are among them. This is real progress.
Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of ADOPTION: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice?
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Title: Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America by Renee Christine Romano ISBN: 0674010337 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Mulatto America: At the Crossroads of Black and White Culture - A Social History by Stephan Talty ISBN: 0060185171 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race & Romance by Rachel F. Moran ISBN: 0226536637 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Just Don't Marry One: Interracial Dating, Marriage, and Parenting by George A. Yancey, Sherelyn Whittum Yancey ISBN: 081701439X Publisher: Judson Press Pub. Date: 30 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Race, Crime, and the Law by Randall Kennedy ISBN: 0375701842 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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