Transracial Adoption
Does
Anyone Else Look Like Me?
A Parent’s Guide to
Raising Multicultural Children by Donna Jackson Nakazawa (2003) The
author draws on research and information in help raising
multi-culturally children and being part of a multi-cultural family.
Ms. Nakazawa provides tools for parents to help children prepare
challenges of being multi-cultural or coming from a multi-cultural
family. This is not a book specifically about adoptive families
or children.
Inside Transracial Adoption by Gail Steinberg and Beth
Hall, Perspectives Press, 2000. Written by the founders of Pact,
An Adoption Alliance, this book is informative and heart warming. These
authors have given their lives to adopted children of different races
and are now teaching parents of children of other races what they
learned the hard way. They address the issues of Native American,
African American, Asian, Hispanic, and bi-racial children and adoption.
In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell
Their Own Stories Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda; Columbia
University Press, New York; 2000 This book is a collection of
twenty-four interviews with African-American and multi-racial adults
adopted by white parents primarily as babies or young children. The
stories in the book are informative, deeply personal and incredibly
touching. You cannot read this book without being changed.""
Black Baby White Hands: A
View From the CribJaiya John. Soul Water Publishing; Silver Spring,
Maryland; 2002
The author of the book tells the story of his life as an African
American child raised by loving white parents who ignored his race and
ethnic background The author explains the sense of loss and
self-hatred he developed as he grew older. This book is an
important read for parents of African American children as well as
parents of children from other cultures.
Hope
Isabel Monk, Carolrhoda Books, Inc., 1999.
Hope, a girl born of mixed races, learns about her rich biracial
heritage. This book helps children to see themselves with pride and
self respect. It is rich in the value of faith, the strength of family,
and the power of storytelling.
