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Residential Racial Diversity: Are Transracial Adoptive Families More Like Multiracial or White Families?*
Author(s) -
Kreider Rose M.,
Raleigh Elizabeth
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
social science quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.482
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1540-6237
pISSN - 0038-4941
DOI - 10.1111/ssqu.12242
Subject(s) - socialization , race (biology) , diversity (politics) , white (mutation) , context (archaeology) , racial differences , racism , ethnic group , psychology , social psychology , sociology , demography , gender studies , geography , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology , anthropology , gene
Objective The purpose of this article is to examine whether and how the residential racial diversity of transracially adopted children (i.e., nonwhite children adopted by white parents) varies from those of biological children in white monoracial families and biological children in mixed‐race families. Method Using the restricted access 2009 American Community Survey, we take advantage of the large number of adoptive families not only to investigate differences among these families, but also to explore whether racial socialization within transracial adoptive families varies by the race and nativity of the child. Results We show that the context of racial socialization for transracially adopted children is more similar to that of white children in monoracial families than that of children in mixed race families. Conclusion This article adds a quantitative, nationally representative picture of the context of racial socialization for specific groups of transracially adopted children, complementing existing research published in this area.