Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Tag: Rhonda M. Roorda

In Their Parents’ Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees

2013-03-24

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

2013-03-24

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…