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Inside Transracial Adoption
by Gail Steinberg and Beth HallClick here to buy your discounted copy on our secure server
Inside Transracial Adoption provides creative, confident, pro-active, and provocative guidance for parents who are experienced veterans or who are considering transracial adoption for the first time. Whether through domestic or international adoption the authors offer direction for building close, loving, and very real families consisting of individuals who are proud and culturally competent members of differing races.
What's "normal?" Where do we live and go to school? Does class have an influence? How can parents become aware and informed and honest enough to combat racism both inside and outside their families? How does a child of color develop racial identity, feel that he "fits" in both culture of family and culture of origin, and build confidence as an adult of his race when raised by white parents? Using a careful blend of academic research, social reality and personal experience, Steinberg and Hall have honed their experiences working with thousands of transracial and transcultural adoptive families and as the recipients of three federal grants on transracial adoption, to offer detailed, step-by-step, get-real guidance for families about tough issues they will have to face related to race and adoption. They do so with humor and pathos, confrontation and empathy, mixed liberally with the gutsy panache for which they are well known in the U.S. adoption community This is a must-read book that pulls no punches. It is destined to become the classic guide to living Inside Transracial Adoption!
Inside Transracial Adoption's Table of Contents
Section 1: The Challenges of Transracial Adoption- The I-You Bridge
- The Experts Speak Out
- How to Use This Book
- Our Perspective on Transracial Adoption
- Race=Adoption
- Personality Issues
- Acknowledging Differences
- Negative reactions from Communities of Color
- Our Working Definitions Useful Books
- Protecting My Child from Her Mom, A Racist
- The Experts Speak Out
- For People of Color
- For White People
- Facing the Issues: Race
- Respecting Feelings
- Strategies: Seeking Diversity
- Strategies: Concrete Tools for Operating in a Racist World
- Useful Books
- Together No Matter What
- The Experts Speak Out
- Strengthening Family Identity
- Parenting in Adoption
- Birth Family
- Extended Family
- Siblings in Adoptive Families
- "You are sooooooo special." One-child Families
- Families that Grow through Birth plus Adoption
- International Adoptive Families
- Single-Parent Transracial Families
- Gay and Lesbian Families
- Religious Choices and Beliefs
- Providing For Your Child's Future
- When Family Members Have Special Needs and Issues
- Useful Books
- All in A Name
- The Experts Speak Out
- Sorting Out the Issues
- Infants
- Preschoolers
- School-Agers
- Teens
- Our Children Are Our Children Forever
- Useful books
- Belonging or Be-Longing?
- The Experts Speak Out
- Building a foundation
- Who Defines Normal?-White Identity
- One Drop Rules-African American Identity Issues
- Racism and Rice-Asian Identity Issues
- Mi Familia, Mi Corazon-Latino Identity Issues
- Being Seen-Native American Identity Issues
- More than a Box-Biracial and Multiracial Identity Issues
- Useful Books
Section 6: Parting Thoughts
- And so it goes?
- A Transracially-adopted Child's Bill of Rights
- A Transracial Adoptive Parent's Wish List
- Conclusions
- Test Your Knowledge
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