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  • Brown Babies Germany’s Forgotten Children – Henriette Cain

    Brown Babies Germany’s Forgotten Children – Henriette Cain Research at the National Archives & Beyond BlogTalk Radio 2013-01-17 Bernice Bennett, Host Are you searching for your family?  Are you German, Brown and want to learn more about your American or German heritage? Join Henriette Cain Genealogist, Search Consultant and Secretary of the Black German Cultural…

  • Adopting the wisdom of Pearl S. Buck

    Adopting the wisdom of Pearl S. Buck gbtimes: The Third Angle Chinese news and video reports on China today 2013-03-26 Asa Butcher When listing an author’s life achievements, it is rare for their Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize to be overshadowed. However, Pearl S. Buck’s humanitarian work with children leaves those awards in…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Multiethnic Children, Youth, and Families: Emerging Challenges to the Behavioral Sciences and Public Policy

    Multiethnic Children, Youth, and Families: Emerging Challenges to the Behavioral Sciences and Public Policy Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies Volume 62, Issue 1 (February 2013) (Special Issue on Multiethnic Families) pages 1–4 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00760.x Hamilton I. McCubbin University of Hawaii, Manoa Laurie “Lali” D. McCubbin, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Counseling…

  • On adoption, race does matter

    On adoption, race does matter The Guardian 2012-12-21 Oona King Like Michael Gove, I used to believe a loving family was all. But I’ve heard from too many black adoptees who are struggling with their identity “My social worker is racist,” said a softly-spoken 10-year-old white boy. “She says I shouldn’t stay with my foster…

  • Josephine Baker: A Chanteuse and a Fighter

    Josephine Baker: A Chanteuse and a Fighter The Journal of Transnational American Studies Volume 2, Number 1 (2010) 18 pages Konomi Ara Tokyo University of Foreign Studies This excerpt is from her newly-published biography of Josephine Baker, “A Fighting Diva.” It tells the intriguing story of Baker’s travels to Japan, her close friendship with the Japanese…

  • Social workers ‘at rock bottom’ over issue of race and adoption

    Social workers ‘at rock bottom’ over issue of race and adoption The Guardian 2012-11-06 Hugh Muir, Diary Editor Professional body to tell Lords committee that political stereotyping has hampered efforts to rehome vulnerable children Morale among social workers has been driven to rock bottom by cuts, targets and ministers making the issue of race and…

  • Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship

    Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship Temple University Press May 2012 230 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-43990-184-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-43990-183-0 eBook ISBN: 978-1-43990-185-4 Kristi Brian, Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies and Anthropology and Director of Diversity Education and Training College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina Until…

  • The Anatomy of Grey: A Theory of Interracial Convergence

    The Anatomy of Grey: A Theory of Interracial Convergence College of Law Faculty Scholarship Paper 74 January 2008 56 pages Kevin Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Janis L. McDonald, Professor of Law Syracuse University This article offers a theory of racial identity divorced from biological considerations. Law fails to recognize the complexity of…