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Check out Anti-Racist Parent columnist Deesha Philyaw’s books reviews and interviews at Bitch magazine:
There are three books about black women and motherhood that rocked my world when I read them: Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood; I’m Every Woman: Remixed Stories of Marriage, Motherhood, and Work; and a novel, Jump at the Sun. Lucky me, I also got to interview the authors, Cecelie S. Berry, Lonnae O’Neal Parker, and Kim McLarin, respectively. Read on for those interviews and my reviews of the books. Read more…
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Tami Winfrey Harris writes about race, feminism, politics and pop culture at the blog What Tami Said. Her work has also appeared online at The Guardian’s Comment is Free, Ms. Magazine blog, Newsweek, Change.org, Huffington Post and Racialicious. She is a graduate of the Iowa State University Greenlee School of Journalism. She is mom to two awesome stepkids and spends her spare time researching her family history and cultivating a righteous 'fro.
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I have a good friend who has received a referral of an Eithiopian baby. My friend tells me that because of the influx of PAPs jumping from Guatemala, Russia and China, the Eithiopian program is flooded. This has caused back logs for court cases.
My friend also reports the fees that her agency charges are going up as well. What used to be an $18K adoption has turned into a $25K adoption.
Before we get all angry at E.J.Graff, we need to take a step back and look at adoption history in our own country. International Adoption is a re-play of what occurred throughout the 1930s-1960s.
Two books which are scarily enlightening are Barbara Bisantz Raymond’s “The Baby Theif” about Georgia Tann and Ellen Herman’s “Kinship By Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States.” In both of these books you will find that history repeated itself on a global scale regarding children for “adoption”.
One also needs to listen to the voices of the oldest generation of internationally adopted persons: the Korean adoptees. Several report that their documented histories were lies. Remember Toby Dawson, the skier from the Olympics? He was one of them.
I am the mother to an internationally adopted child from Bulgaria. There are many paperwork irregularities with his adoption, caused by his orphanage director. Was my son trafficked? Was he truly “abandoned”? Were his first family paid off? I don’t know, but at the time, I didn’t care. I just wanted a child. Multiply me by 200,000.