Tag: adoption

  • Raising My Black Son Brian, Child: the magazine for thinking mothers 2016-08-09 Suanne Schafer Twenty years ago, I adopted an interracial child—I’ll call him M—thinking a mother’s love could overcome all barriers, even racial ones. Twenty years later, I’m not sure I did my son any favors. I’m a white mom trying to figure out…

  • How White Parents of Black and Multiracial Transracially Adopted Children Approach Racial Exposure and Neighborhood Choice Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Published online before print 2016-08-02 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216661851 Kathryn A. Sweeney, Associate Professor of Sociology Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, Indiana Although past research on racial socialization tends to concentrate on providing cultural knowledge and pride,…

  • On January 1, 1955, there were approximately four thousand mischlingskinder2 in the West German Republic. This number is still increasing by 250 to 350 a year. More than 70 per cent of the children are living with their mothers, and about 5 per cent with other relatives—grandparents, aunts, etc. About 12 per cent are in…

  • Searching for Identity: Race, adoption and awareness in the millennial generation Medium 2016-05-19 Dwight Smith What happens when a black boy is adopted at birth into a white world where race and racism are ghosts of the past and racial identity is a silly thing to waste time thinking about? As a transracial adult adoptee…

  • Mixed-Race Korean Adoptees Use DNA to Search For Roots NBC News 2016-03-02 Young Jin Kim Sarah Savidakis, 55, lived in South Korea until she was nine years old, at which time she was adopted by a Connecticut family. For Savidakis, who says she has grappled with the effects of early childhood trauma, memories of her…

  • Trans-racial Mothering: Double-Edged Privilege Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless Volume 17, Issue 1-2 (01 February 2008) pages 8-36 DOI: 10.1179/sdh.2008.17.1-2.8 Martha Satz, Assistant Professor of English Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas In this essay, the white adoptive mother of two bi-racial children reflects upon her thirty year experience of parenting to make several…

  • Raising my biracial Jewish child Ethical Jam The Times of Israel Jerusalem, Israel 2015-11-12 Ethical Jam presents contemporary ethical dilemmas and the responses of Jewish thinkers from across the world Jewish community. Ethical Jam is a project of the Center for Global Judaism (CGJ) at Hebrew College in Newton Centre, Massachusetts and of the Times…

  • Koreans & Camptowns: Reflections of a Mixed-Race Korean Korean American Story 2015-11-04 Cerrissa Kim I’ve often stood out from the crowd, and not in a way that made me feel like a rock star—far from it. Growing up in a rural town filled with dairy cows and Caucasian farmers, and then in a bedroom community…

  • Koreans and Camptowns: Mixed-Race Adoptees and Camptown Connections David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way Berkeley, California 94704 2015-09-26, 09:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time) In cooperation with the Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley, we were excited to host a one-day conference to learn more about the camptowns that developed alongside American military bases in…

  • Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America New York University Press October 2013 244 pages 17 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814717226 Paper ISBN: 9781479892174 Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative…