kamilah

At first, it was the great companion to my favorite book on race, Siobhan Somerville's _Queering the Color Line_. Then I got the last third of the book. While this section on adoption forced me to recognize the ambiguity of my beliefs on the mutability of race, its legal approach fell short. So many of the court cases he critiques are decades old, and I found it hard to believe that similar attitudes--that same-race adoption must happen or the heavens will fall--prevail now. Moreover, for someone whose argument rests primarily on these cases' decisions being based on insufficient empirical evidence, he lacks it as well.