Black Child, White Parents: A Beginning Biography.

Morin, Rita J.

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Publication Date: 1977

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Black Child, White Parents: A Beginning Biography

Morin, Rita J.

Child Welfare, 56, 9, 576-83, Nov 77

Discusses the development of personal and social identities by the white author's 7-year-old adopted black son. The child's interactions with family, peers and others were studied in order to determine how social facts were used by the child as biographical information and how his social and personal identities might differ or coincide. (BF)

Descriptors: Adopted Children, Blacks, Parent Child Relationship, Personality Change, Racial Attitudes, Racial Discrimination, Racial Relations, Self Concept, Social Adjustment, Social Attitudes

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