Color-blind Individualism, Intercountry Adoption and Public Policy

Authors

Pamela Anne Quiroz, University of Illinois, Chicago

Keywords

Color-blind, adoption, racism, transracial, intercountry

Abstract

A prevailing ideology of color-blindness has resulted in privatizing the discourse on adoption. Color-blind individualism, the adoption arena's version of color-blind discourse, argues that race should not matter in adoption; racism can be eradicated through transracial adoption; and individual rights should be exercised without interference of the state. As privatization has increasingly dominated our world and disparities between countries have grown, so too has intercountry adoption. This paper examines the colonial aspects of intercountry adoption and implications for conceptualizing global human rights from our current emphasis on individual rights, as the real issue continues to be which children are desired by which parents.

Recommended Citation

Quiroz, Pamela Anne (2007) "Color-blind Individualism, Intercountry Adoption and Public Policy," The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 34: Iss. 2, Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.3249
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol34/iss2/5