In their voices : black Americans on transracial adoption / Rhonda M. Roorda.
While many proponents of transracial adoption claim that American society is increasingly becoming colour-blind, a growing body of research reveals that for transracial adoptees of all backgrounds, racial identity does matter. Rhonda M. Roorda elaborates significantly on that finding, specifically s...
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[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Leon W. Chestang
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: moving beyond the controversy of the transracial adoption of black and biracial children
- Jim Crow era (1877-1954)
- Evelyn Rhodes, great grandmother and matriarch
- W. Wilson Goode Sr., first black mayor of Philadelphia (1984-92)
- Cyril C. Pinder, mentor and former national football league player
- Civil rights era (1955-72)
- Arthur E. McFarlane II, great grandson of W.E.B. du Bois and advocate for the preservation of cultural heritage
- Lora Kay (pseudonym), principal of a charter school in Washington, D.C
- Chester Jackson, professional adoption worker and adoptive father
- Henry Allen, professor of sociology
- Post-civil rights era (1973-present)
- Vershawn A. Young, author and scholar
- Michelle M. Hughes, adoption attorney and adoptive mother
- Mahisha Dellinger, CEO and founder of curls
- Deneta Howland Sells, physician and civil rights advocate
- Tabitha, child welfare bureau chief
- Bryan Post, CEO of the post institute for family-centered therapy and adoptee
- Shilease Hofmann, spouse of a transracial adoptee
- Chelsey Hines, foster care alumna and transracial adoptee
- Demetrius Walker, entrepreneur and cofounder of the DN/BE Apparel
- Conclusion
- Afterword
- Appendix: multicultural adoption plan
- Notes
- References.