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...Foster Associate Professor of African Studies Emmanuel K. Akyeampong repeated some advice Vail had given him early in his career that he said highlighted Vail's mix of academics and compassion...
Williams said he plans to continue HSBSE's efforts to set up mentoring relationships between older and younger undergraduates, to create table tents for dining halls during Black History Month and to foster relationships with national organizations...
Dialogues about difference are going on in an increasing number of American households that have been made multiracial through either intermarriage or transracial adoption. The Census Bureau estimates that there are more than 1.3 million interracial marriages. Nearly a third of the children adopted from the public foster-care system are placed with families of a different race. And in the past decade, the number of children adopted from China, for example, has jumped from less than 200 to more than 4,000. You see it even in Hollywood, where Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise and Michelle Pfeiffer are parents...
...National Association of Black Social Workers made waves when it declared itself vehemently opposed to transracial placements. Representatives of the association argued that minority children need parents like them in order to form a strong sense of identity. While that view is shared by many officials in the foster-care system, there are now laws in place forbidding officials to use race as a routine consideration. And proponents of transracial placement have research behind them. "The bottom line is that these children grow up healthy and with ties to their culture," says sociologist Rita Simon...
...complex and emotionally charged process. But it may get a lot easier, thanks to a federal website announced last week. When it goes live in September 2001, the site will provide the first national listing to include photos and profiles of the more than 8,000 children in foster homes who are available for adoption. That number could triple by 2001 as new laws requiring permanent homes for foster children take effect. Among the many states that already post their own listings are Texas (www.tdprs.state.tx.us) and New York (www.dfa.state.ny.us...