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2.
Melone, op cit. For Evidence on racism in Britain see BagleyCVermaG, Racial prejudice, the individual and society, Farnborough: Saxon House, 1979.
3.
For a review of some of these studies see BagleyC, ‘Effects of environment’, Adoption and Fostering, 88, Number 2 of 1977.
4.
See GrowLShapiroD, Black child – white parents, New York: Child Welfare League of America, 1975; R Simon and H Alstein, Transracial adoption, New York: Wiley, 1977; and J Ladner, Mixed families: adopting across racial boundaries, New York: Anchor Press, 1977.
5.
BagleyCYoungL, ‘The identity, adjustment and achievement of transracially adopted children: a review and empirical report’, in VermaGBagleyC, Editors, Race, education and identity, MacMillan, 1979; and B Tizard, Adoption: a second chance, Open Books, 1978.
6.
EriksonE, Childhood and society, New York: Norton, 1963; and Identity, youth and crisis, London: Faber, 1968.
7.
MaslowA, Motivation and personality, New York: Harper and Row, 1954.
8.
TurnerR, ‘Is there a quest for identity?’Sociological Quarterly, 1975, 16, 148–161; and FrankelJDullaertJ, ‘Is adolescent rebellion universal?’ Adolescence, 1977, 12, 227–236.
9.
Turner op cit.
10.
RutterMGrahamPChadwickOYuleW, ‘Adolescent turmoil: fact or fiction?’Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1976, 17, 35–56.
11.
KirkH, Shared fate: a theory of adoption and mental health, Collier-MacMillan, 1964.
12.
TizardB, Adoption: a second chance, Open Books, 1978, and Bagley and Young, op cit.
13.
For a review of some of these studies see CoopersmithS, ‘Self-concept, race and education,’ in VermaGBagleyC, Editors, Race and education across cultures, Heinemann, 1975.
14.
BagleyCEvan-WongL, ‘Neuroticism and extraversion in responses to Coopersmith's self-esteem inventory’, Psychological Reports, 1975. 36, 253–254.
15.
WeinreichP, ‘Cross-ethnic identification and self-rejection in a black adolescent’, in VermaGBagleyC, Editors, Race, education and identity, MacMillan, 1979.
16.
BagleyCVermaGMallickKYoungL, Personality, self-esteem and prejudice, Farnborough: Saxon House, 1979.
17.
Compare the results reported by BagleyCVermaGMallickK, ‘Pupil self-esteem: a study of black and white teenagers in British schools’, in VermaGBagleyC, Race, education and identity, MacMillan, 1979.
18.
Weinreich, op cit.
19.
BagleyC, ‘Suicidal behaviour and suicidal ideation in adolescents: a problem for counsellors in education’, British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1975, 3, 190–208.
20.
BagleyC, ‘Adoption and child welfare in India’, to be published in Adoption and Fostering, 97.
