Roorda / gendzier In Their Voices

Black Americans on Transracial Adoption
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-54048-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Forthright accounts of the diverse experiences of black men and women who have been involved in transracial adoption professionally or personally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roorda, Rhonda

gendzier, Rhonda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogik: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 a recipient of the Judge John P. Steketee Adoption Hero Award from the Adoptive Family Support Network (MI). With 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.