{"id":53928,"date":"2017-05-17T01:28:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T01:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53928"},"modified":"2017-05-17T01:28:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T01:28:03","slug":"shaping-a-childs-race-identity-black-white-or-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53928","title":{"rendered":"Shaping a child\u2019s race identity: Black, white, or other?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinookobserver.com\/co\/columns\/20170509\/shaping-a-childs-race-identity-black-white-or-other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Shaping a child\u2019s race identity: Black, white, or other?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinookobserver.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinook Observer<\/a><br \/>\nLong Beach, Washington<br \/>\n2017-05-09<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruth Elaine Jutila Chamberlin<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinookobserver.com\/co\/columns\/20170509\/shaping-a-childs-race-identity-black-white-or-other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinookobserver.com\/storyimage\/CO\/20170509\/ARTICLE\/170509900\/AR\/0\/AR-170509900.jpg&amp;MaxW=600\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Lindsay Chamberlin was photographed near the time of her adoption. <em>FAMILY PHOTO<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>We sat in straight chairs, waiting to meet our daughter. Burt held Jordan, age two, and Jamie, 13 months, while I jittered solo, eager to hold the baby. \u201cEager\u201d doesn\u2019t come close. I was afire. Atingle!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we knew (no photos available): Eight months old. African-American\/Irish-American. Foster child, next county. We wanted her! But were we, a white couple, the right parents for this child? Adoption workers would watch us interact with the baby and decide, yes or no.<\/p>\n<p>The caseworker came in, carrying Lindsey (we\u2019d already named her, hoping to adopt her). I was stunned! My imaginary Lindsey was a shy, pint-sized, brown-skinned baby. The real one was big for her age, light-skinned, calm, and forceful.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsey was in charge of the meeting. She shot us piercing looks. Dear child! First she lost her birthmom, her familiar voice and heart rhythms. Lindsey grieved. Another mom took her. Everything changed. Lindsey grieved more. But she was brave. She learned to roll over, sit and creep, eat solid food, looking to that mom for praise and safety. Now SHE\u2019S gone? NOT FAIR! No one asked ME!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinookobserver.com\/co\/columns\/20170509\/shaping-a-childs-race-identity-black-white-or-other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sat in straight chairs, waiting to meet our daughter. Burt held Jordan, age two, and Jamie, 13 months, while I jittered solo, eager to hold the baby. \u201cEager\u201d doesn\u2019t come close. I was afire. Atingle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,125,8,20],"tags":[687,26994,26992,26993],"class_list":["post-53928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-adoption","tag-chinook-observer","tag-lindsay-chamberlin","tag-ruth-elaine-jutila-chamberlin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53929,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53928\/revisions\/53929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}