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Hello,
I'm an NPR reporter working on a story about adoptions of mixed race children in the 1950s-60s. I've learned that Louise Wise Services, among other agencies, hired scientific consultants to help determine the race of children they were working with, in order to place the children with adoptive parents of the same race. Officials were worried that they might, for example, accidentally place a light-skinned black child with a Latino family.
I'm looking for anyone who might know anything about this practice - or someone who, as a child, was identified as a certain race, placed with a family....and then, growing up, began to suspect that they might actually be a different race. Any stories even remotely along those lines would be very helpful.
Thanks for any leads!
all my best,
Samara
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Dr. Viola Bernard is worth looking into. The link is to the site The Adoption History Project and I believe their is an email address for the lead of this project although I don't know if they are still actively working on it. [url=http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/people/bernard.htm]Adoption History: Viola Wertheim Bernard (1907-1998)[/url] All the records from Louise Wise Agency are maintained by Spence Chapin Agency in NY? I believe. The Louise Wise Agency is pretty famous for the inhumane study on identical twins deliberately separated and adopted into different homes. The most famous are the authors of Identical Strangers which NPR has already done a story on. You may get the odd reply if you post your query in the Search and Reunion portion of this site. You can do a search in that area of the site for Louise Wise and pull up quite a few threads. Kind regards,Dickons
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