num_pages: 208
description: An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges these adoptees have as they navigate multiple culturesYour parents are so amazing for adopting you! You should be grateful that you were adopted.Angela Tucker is a Black woman adopted from foster care by white parents. She has heard this microaggression her entire life usually from well-intentioned strangers who view her adoptive parents as noble saviors. She is grateful for many aspects of her life but being transracially adopted involves layers of rejection loss and complexity that cannot be summed up so easily.In You Should Be Grateful Tucker centers the experiences of adoptees to share deeply personal stories well-researched history and engrossing anecdotes from mentorship sessions with adopted youth. These perspectives challenge the fairy-tale narrative of adoption giving way to a fuller story that explores the impacts of racism classism family love and belonging.
language: English
title: "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
publisher: Beacon Press