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With increasing numbers of transracial adoptions in the U.S., White Parents, Black Children brings to light the difficult racial issues that are often challenging for families to talk about. This book is written to help parents, educators, and others working with children understand the issues and help children develop a healthy understanding of themselves.
List of contents
Foreword by Joe R. Feagin
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Transracial Adoption: Considering Family, Home, and Love, and the Paradoxes of Race Matters
Chapter 2: Contextualilizing Transracial Adoption: Demographic Trends, Introducing the Families
Chapter 3: Transracial Adoption, White Racial Knowledge, and the Trouble with "Love is Enough"
Chapter 4: Research on Transracial Adoption: What Do We Know?
Chapter 5: Cross-Cultural Race Pioneers: White Adoptive Parents Learning and Not Learning about Race
Chapter 6: White Parents Teaching Black Children about Race
Chapter 7: Addressing Race with Your Children: Practical Advice for White Adoptive Parents
Appendix A: A Note about Our Methods and Methodology
Appendix B: Transracial Adoption in the 2000 Census and the National Survey of Adoptive Paernts (2007)
Notes
References
Index
About the Authors
About the author
Darron T. Smith is a frequent commentator on issues of race, including a New York Times post on transracial adoption and Haiti. He is assistant professor at Wichita State University and the coeditor of the book Black and Mormon. Cardell K. Jacobson is Karl G. Maeser Professor at Brigham Young University and the author or editor of several books, including Statistical Handbook on Racial Groups in the United States. Brenda G. Juárez is assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, specializing in social justice education.
Summary
With increasing numbers of transracial adoptions in the U.S., White Parents, Black Children brings to light the difficult racial issues that are often challenging for families to talk about. This book is written to help parents, educators, and others working with children understand the issues and help children develop a healthy understanding of themselves.
