Transracial Adoption
Websites
Pact Adoption Alliance
resources to address dual heritage of transracial adopted children including issues for adoptive children of color, art and book references, and a chance to interact with others.
Adoption Under one Roof, every angle, every view, for everyone
Site with links to resources, blogs, and information related to transracial adoption
Click the adoption link for information, resources, and articles
Coalition for adoption and foster care in New York
It is a NYS link but has a great link on transracial and transcultural adoption connecting you to articles, resources and information all over and not just in NYC
Click on faculty, then on Victor Groza, and then look at his articles, research, and presentations
professor and his research on transracial adoption, includes projects completed by his students
Books
- Inside Transracial Adoption
by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall
Using academic research, social reality, and personal experience, this book provides guidance for individuals considering transracial adoption, and for parents who already have children of more than one background. Transracial adoption isn’t just about the children’s race and culture, but about the parents’ as well, and all must be respected and honored – not an easy task. It provides families with tools and suggestions, ideas and guidance.
- I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World
by Marguerite A. Wright
Teaches parents and educators of black and biracial children how to reduce racism’s impact on a child’s development – from preschool through adolescence – and in doing so to raise emotionally healthy children.
- In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Own Stories
by Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M Roorda
This book asks how being adopted transracially affected the lives of adoptees through childhood and into adulthood. It examines how family experiences influenced their racial and social identities, their choice of friends and marital partners, and their lifestyles.
- In Their Parents Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees
by Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M Roorda
These candid interviews shed light on the issues these parents encountered, what part race played during thirty plus years of parenting, what they learned about themselves, and whether they would recommend transracial adoption to others.