NARRATIVES OF INTERRACIAL ADOPTION: LEGAL AND SOCIAL REFLECTIONS THROUGH ART

Abstract

This article addresses interracial adoption from legal, social, and cultural aspects, analyzing the challenges faced by white parents and black children in a context marked by structural racism. Using the This Is Us series as an example, it is highlighted that love between parents and children alone is not enough to deal with the complexities of interracial adoption, and it is essential that parents develop racial literacy. The research, based on a literature review, indicates that interracial adoption requires a continuous commitment to confronting racism inside and outside the family environment. Thus, it is concluded that art cooperates to understand the nuances of this process and exposes the need to prepare parents to offer genuine care, thus preventing adoption from adding a new emotional wound to the one already imposed by abandonment.