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Informationen zum Autor Rhonda M. Roorda, M.A., was adopted into a white family and raised with two nonadopted siblings. She is a national speaker on transracial adoption and is the recipient of the 2010 Judge John P. Steketee Adoption Hero Award from the Adoptive Family Support Network (MI). In 2017, Rhonda was awarded the Friend of Children and Youth Award from the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC). With the late Rita J. Simon, she coauthored a landmark trilogy of books on transracial adoption ( In Their Own Voices , In Their Parents' Voices , and In Their Siblings' Voices ). She works as a fund administrator at an educational advocacy organization in Lansing, Michigan. Klappentext Forthright accounts of the diverse experiences of black men and women who have been involved in transracial adoption professionally or personally. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword, by Leon W. Chestang Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Moving Beyond the Controversy of the Transracial Adoption of Black and Biracial Children Part I. Jim Crow Era (1877–1954) Evelyn Rhodes, great grandmother and matriarch W. Wilson Goode Sr., first black mayor of Philadelphia (1984–92) Cyril C. Pinder, mentor and former National Football League player Part II. Civil Rights Era (1955–72) Arthur E. McFarlane II, great grandson of W. E. B. Du Bois and advocate for the preservation of cultural heritage Lora Kay (pseudonym), principal of a charter school in Washington, D.C. Chester Jackson, professional adoption worker and adoptive father Henry Allen, professor of sociology Part III. Post–Civil Rights Era (1973–Present) Vershawn A. Young, author and scholar Michelle M. Hughes, adoption attorney and adoptive mother Mahisha Dellinger, CEO and founder of Curls Deneta Howland Sells, physician and civil rights advocate Tabitha, child welfare bureau chief Bryan Post, CEO of the Post Institute for Family-Centered Therapy and adoptee Shilease Hofmann, spouse of a transracial adoptee Chelsey Hines, foster care alumna and transracial adoptee Demetrius Walker, entrepreneur and cofounder of the dN|BE Apparel Conclusion Afterword Appendix: Multicultural Adoption Plan Notes References...
