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While reading the September 1999 issue of Social Work: Journal of the National Association of Social Workers, I came across an article entitled “Symbolic Interactionism, African American Families and the Transracial Adoption Controversy”. It was written by Leslie Doty Hollingsworth PhD, the assistant professor in the school of social work at the University of Michigan. The article claims that by using symbolic interactionism, it can be seen that African Americans are a unique and distinct cultural group and therefore adoption of African American children by families of a different race should only be allowed as an absolute last resort. I object strongly to this proposition and plan to use symbolic interactionism to show just the opposite. In the fall of 1972, the National Association of Black Social Workers passed a resolution about trasracial adoption. It was written, “Black children should be placed only with Black families whether in foster care or adoption”. In my opinion it is ridiculous to
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Approximate Word count = 680
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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