you might want to do some reading first. There are two books I'd recommend, "Inside Transracial Adoption" and "I'm Vanilla, you're chocolate". You might also want to visit this website:
http://www.pactadopt.org
they have a ton of articles there that will give you some things to think about.
If I might, you might want to ask yourself a few questions, just to provoke some thought. why are you interested in adopting an AA child? why do you live in a 'vanilla' area and not a more integrated one? why do you not have friends of color? How does your family feel about african americans? Your extended family? what do you know about AA history, culture, and are you willing to learn? What do you know about white privilege?
adopting a child of color means that you and your family will now be multicultural, and that requires an adjustment for most. I'd encourage you to do some reading (those books above are good), have some serious thinking and discussions with your spouse, your family, and ask a number of questions of yourself and others. these books and the website should help you get started.
good luck!
Lisa
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-first time amom to dd, born 7/7/04
-placed in our arms by a very loving bmom 7/9/04
-bfather's rights terminated 9/7/04
-just connected with bdad!!! 2/9/05
-visited bfamilies for a week, awesome trip 6/05
-bfather signed legally binding open adoption
agreement 7/05
-finalized (woohoo!) 18th of November 2005
-Thinking about adoption #2!
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