Category: Family/Parenting

  • Overseas adoptions rise — for black American children Cable News Network (CNN) 2013-09-17 Sophie Brown Editor’s note: In this series, CNN investigates international adoption, hearing from families, children and key experts on its decline, and whether the trend could — or should — be reversed. (CNN) — Elisa van Meurs grew up with a Polish…

  • Vietnam Legacy: Finding G.I. Fathers, and Children Left Behind The New York Times 2013-09-16 James Dao, Military and Veterans Affairs Reporter SALTILLO, Miss. — Soon after he departed Vietnam in 1970, Specialist James Copeland received a letter from his Vietnamese girlfriend. She was pregnant, she wrote, and he was the father. He re-enlisted, hoping to…

  • Black Coral: A Daughter’s Apology To Her Asian Island Mother Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-09-05, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-09-06, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host C. D. Holmes-Miller, Clergywoman, Theologian, Designer, Author Mother with Clergywoman, Theologian, Communications Designer and author, The Rt. Reverend Dr. Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller aka Bishop Miller, M.S.,…

  • Three years prior to the ending of the slave trade, Jamaica’s richest and most influential merchant mused on the possible consequences of abolition. Writing to his friend George Hibbert in January of 1804, Simon Taylor offered a stark vision of the British imperial economy without slave importation, echoing scores of other pro-slavery writers who preached…

  • The Girl Who Fell from the Sky Explains What it Is to Be Mixed and Happy The Huffington Post 2010-05-04 Marcia Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg Professors Ravinder Barn and Vicki Harman from the Centre for Criminology and Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London are carrying out a…

  • Making it Last: A Couple Who See Race Clearly The New York Times 2013-08-23 Erika Allen Booming’s “Making It Last” column profiles baby boomer couples who have been together 25 years or more. Christopher and Laura Castoro met when she asked him to tutor her in German. They didn’t realize they were of different race…

  • Counseling Single Mothers of Multiple Heritage Children: What Is the Difference? The Family Journal Volume 21, Issue 4 (October 2013) pages 396-401 DOI: 10.1177/1066480713488527 Kristin Harris, MA Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas Richard Henriksen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Education Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Ph.D., Professor of Education Sam Houston…

  • Counseling Single-Parent Multiracial Families The Family Journal Volume 21, Issue 4 (October 2013) pages 386-395 DOI: 10.1177/1066480713488526 Henry L. Harris, Associate Professor of Education Department of Counseling University of North Carolina, Charlotte Single-parent families represent a growing segment of the family households in the United States today and while some literature has addressed racial differences,…

  • ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ Motherlode: Adventures in Parenting The New York Times 2013-08-19 Nicole Soojung Callahan Like many other people of color, I am no stranger to awkward conversations about race. Strangers have complimented my English, remarked on how tall I am “for an Asian” and — more times than I can count…

  • Narratives from a Nottingham council estate: a story of white working-class mothers with mixed-race children Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 8 (August 2013) Special Issue: Mothering Across Racialised Boundaries pages 1342-1358 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.776698 Lisa McKenzie, Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences University of Nottingham This paper introduces a group of white working-class women…