Description
Book SynopsisTransracial 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.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Transracial Adoption in the United States
Chapter 2: Growing Up Transracially Adopted
Chapter 3: Between Two Worlds
Chapter 4: Growth in Black Identity
Chapter 5: Views of Family Related to Race
Chapter 6: The Political Is Personal
Chapter 7: This Is Me
Chapter 8: The White Racial Frame and Transracial Adoption
Chapter 9: Transracial Adoptive Parenting
Chapter 10: A Note to Research, Adoption, and Counseling Professionals
Appendix A: Film and Book Recommendations
Appendix B: Description of Concepts and Use of Terms
References
Index
About the Author
