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Transracial Adoption, Identity, and Racism in the United States
Between Two Worlds
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2023
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Transracial Adoption, Identity, and Racism in the United States: Between Two Worlds places racial literacy and anti-racism at the center of the transracial adoption debate. The author argues that transracial adoption stems from systemic issues of racial injustice, and that those problems will not be solved quickly, for they are still being realized. While the work to raise awareness of and correct the disproportionate number of Black children in foster care is done, transracial adoption will continue to occur. In the meantime, the author suggests an intentional examination of the narratives of Black transracial adoptees' experiences of race to learn about the racial socialization in transracial adoptive households during childhood, teen years, and into adulthood. Adoptees share what they learned about race in White families, what they needed in terms of racial socialization that they didn't get, the myriad feelings they have toward their families, and how they make sense of race in their lives as young adults in the United States. The stories told by adoptees in this book are centered to inspire a change in how transracial adoption is approached by White parents, adoption professionals, social workers, researchers, and counseling psychologists.
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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-1459-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-1460-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
158
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
Transracial Adoption in the United States No access Pages 7 - 12
Growing Up Transracially Adopted No access Pages 13 - 34
Between Two Worlds No access Pages 35 - 46
Growth in Black Identity No access Pages 47 - 60
Views of Family Related to Race No access Pages 61 - 72
The Political is Personal No access Pages 73 - 84
This Is Me No access Pages 85 - 96
Transracial Adoption and the White Racial Frame No access Pages 97 - 102
Transracial Adoptive Parenting No access Pages 103 - 118
A Note to Research, Adoption, and Counseling Professionals No access Pages 119 - 128
