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  • In Their Parents’ Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees

    Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda’s In “Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees” Tell Their Stories shared the experiences of twenty-four black and biracial children who had been adopted into white families in the late 1960s and 70s. The book has since become a standard resource for families and practitioners, and now, in this sequel,…

  • In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories

    In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories Columbia University Press April 2000 480 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-11829-3 Rita J. Simon, University Professor Emerita Department of Justice, Law and Society American University, Washington, D.C. Rhonda M. Roorda   Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted…

  • The Case for Transracial Adoption

    The Case for Transracial Adoption American University Press 1994 150 pages 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 1879383209; ISBN-13: 978-1879383203 Rita J. Simon, University Professor Emerita Department of Justice, Law and Society American University, Washington, D.C. Howard Altstein, Professor of Social Work University of Maryland, Baltimore Marygold S. Melli, Professor of Law Emerita…

  • More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order

    In the United States, anyone with even a trace of African American ancestry has been considered black. Even as the twenty-first century opens, a racial hierarchy still prevents people of color, including individuals of mixed race, from enjoying the same privileges as Euro-Americans. In this book, G. Reginald Daniel argues that we are at a…

  • One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets

    Ever since renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard’s own parents, New Orleans Creoles, had moved to Brooklyn and began to “pass” in order to get work, he had learned to conceal his racial identity. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York literary elite, he maintained the façade. Now his daughter Bliss tries…

  • Racial Categorization of Multiracial Children in Schools

    Racial Categorization of Multiracial Children in Schools Praeger Publishing May 1998 176 pages 5 1/2×8 1/2 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89789-499-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-313-00565-7 Jane Ayers Chiong Multiracial students have unique needs that are not being met in schools, because teachers and school personnel assume that those needs are the same as those of monoracial minority children.…

  • Picturing Black New Orleans: A Creole Photographer’s View of the Early Twentieth Century

    Between 1920 and 1949, Collins documented African American life, capturing images of graduations, communions, and recitals, and allowing her subjects to help craft their images. She supported herself and her family throughout the Great Depression and in the process created an enduring pictorial record of her particular time and place. Collins left behind a visual…

  • Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism

    “Troubling the Family” argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism—the seemingly massive and instantaneous popular appearance of Tiger Woods in 1997—Habiba Ibrahim examines how the shifting status of racial hero for both black and multiracial communities makes sense…

  • Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial

    Representations of multiracial Americans, especially those with one black and one white parent, appear everywhere in contemporary culture, from reality shows to presidential politics. Some depict multiracial individuals as being mired in painful confusion; others equate them with progress, as the embodiment of a postracial utopia. In “Transcending Blackness,” Ralina L. Joseph critiques both depictions…

  • Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in Popular Culture

    There is no teasing apart what interracial couples think of themselves from what society shows them about themselves. Following on her earlier ground-breaking study of the social worlds of interracial couples, Erica Chito Childs considers the larger context of social messages, conveyed by the media, that inform how we think about love across the color…