White parents, black children
Subtitle: experiencing transracial adoption
By: Darron T. Smith, Cardell K. Jacobson, and Brenda G. Juárez
Contributors: Jacobson, Cardell K., 1941-; Juárez, Brenda G., 1967-
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781442207622; 9781442207646
Subjects: Race relations; Race awareness in children; Race identity; Interracial adoption; African Americans; Racism
Description: Looks at the difficult issues of race in transracial adoptions -- particularly the most common adoption demographic of white parents with children from other racial and ethnic groups.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Transracial adoption: considering family, home, and love and the paradoxes of race matters; title: Contextualizing transracial adoption: demographic trends, introducing the families; title: Transracial adoption, white racial knowledge, and the trouble with "love is enough"; title: Research on transracial adoption: what do we know?; title: Cross-cultural race pioneers: white adoptive parents learning and not learning about race; title: White parents teaching black children about race; title: Addressing race with your children: practical advice for white adoptive parents.