In their voices
Subtitle: Black Americans on transracial adoption
By: Rhonda M. Roorda
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780231172219
Subjects: Family relationships; Interracial adoption; Adoptees; African Americans; Race identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Leon W. Chestang; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: moving beyond the controversy of the transracial adoption of black and biracial children; title: Jim Crow era (1877-1954); title: Evelyn Rhodes, great grandmother and matriarch; title: W. Wilson Goode Sr., first black mayor of Philadelphia (1984-92); title: Cyril C. Pinder, mentor and former national football league player; title: Civil rights era (1955-72); title: Arthur E. McFarlane II, great grandson of W. E. B. du Bois and advocate for the preservation of cultural heritage; title: Lora Kay (pseudonym), principal of a charter school in Washington, D.C; title: Chester Jackson, professional adoption worker and adoptive father; title: Henry Allen, professor of sociology; title: Post-civil rights era (1973-present); title: Vershawn A. Young, author and scholar; title: Michelle M. Hughes, adoption attorney and adoptive mother; title: Mahisha Dellinger, CEO and founder of curls; title: Deneta Howland Sells, physician and civil rights advocate; title: Tabitha, child welfare bureau chief; title: Bryan Post, CEO of the post institute for family-centered therapy and adoptee; title: Shilease Hofmann, spouse of a transracial adoptee; title: Chelsey Hines, foster care alumna and transracial adoptee; title: Demetrius Walker, entrepreneur and cofounder of the DN/BE Apparel; title: Conclusion; title: Afterword; title: Appendix: multicultural adoption plan; title: Notes; title: References.