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...That, as Housewife Judy Meredith of Boston explains it, is how she and her husband-both white-came to adopt a 13-month-old Indian called Tommy and a two-week-old black baby named Jackie. The Merediths' decision is part of a growing phenomenon known in sociologist's jargon as transracial adoption. Last year 2,200 black babies were adopted by white U.S. families, compared with only 700 in 1968. Today there are more than 10,000 "T.R.A. families" in all 50 states and in the ten Canadian provinces...
...child himself cannot. Establishing a sense of identity, hard for many adopted children, is even harder for the T.R.A. youngster. One black Montreal teenager, brought up by whites, refers to Negroes as "them" and to whites as "us." Similarly, Bill Kirk, who was adopted at age three by Ontario Sociologist H. David Kirk and is now 17, reports that "I think like a white man, and when I get out into the world, that is maybe going to hang...
T.R.A. youngsters, says Sociologist Kirk, can become "people between worlds." Other things being equal, Montreal's Open Door Society concedes, placing black children with black parents is best. The trouble is that other things rarely are equal; too few black families can afford adoption, and most are reluctant to apply for children because they are afraid of being rejected by white adoption agencies. But given a choice between leaving black kids (or children of other racial minorities) in institutions or placing them with willing white families, most experts would vote for the latter. Says Clayton Hagen of the Lutheran...
...Foreign Relations Committee (TIME, Aug. 2). Political Scientist Robert A. Scalapino, who advocated U.S. diplomatic recognition of China twelve years ago, has nevertheless become anathema to many younger scholars for supporting U.S. involvement in Viet Nam during the Johnson Administration. At the opposite pole is H. Franz Schurmann, a sociologist and historian, probably the most respected of the experts who are highly sympathetic to Mao. Schurmann's Ideology and Organization in Communist China (1966) impressed scholars with its data-laden explanation of how Mao has managed to inspire and organize masses of people to work on economic and social...
Black Brandeis? Apart from providing instruction and pleasant memories, how well has the institute succeeded in inculcating "Jewishness" and good citizenship? Sociologist Gene N. Levine of U.C.L.A. surveyed some 1,500 alumni and found that the Brandeis effect actually seems to grow as the graduates acquire more responsibility as family heads and in the community. The most important benefit singled out by the alumni lies in what they teach their own children, many of whom are now getting formal Jewish schooling. But there seem to be other good results. Of the married graduates, only about 2% have been divorced...