by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Dawn Friedman
When we decided to pursue a domestic adoption nearly five years ago, my husband and I – both of us white – decided that we were open to adopting transracially. We were naïve about this – we really didn’t understand the challenges for children adopted transracially – but when we [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Cloudscome
Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption by Barbara Katz Rothman. Beacon Press, 2005.
Rothman is a professor of sociology at Baruch College, CUNY. She’s written several other books on motherhood, giving birth, race, and gender. In Weaving a Family Rothman talks about her own experience as a white mother of three [...]

by ARP Columnist Jae Ran Kim, originally published at Kimchi Mamas
I was pregnant with my daughter in April of 1992 when the police officers in the Rodney King beating were acquitted and the riots erupted in Los Angeles. I was a student then, and between my classes and work my husband and I would watch [...]

This post was originally published at Racialicious on August 17, 2006.
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Quite a few people have pointed us to this New York Times article on transracial adoption today. (Thanks daddyinastrangeland, Naro% and Takara!) I haven’t had much time to formulate any intelligent thoughts on this yet, so I’m just going to paste [...]

This post was originally published at Racialicious on June 15, 2006.
by Jen Chau
Nice story in the Christian Science Monitor — a mom of mixed and transracially adopted kids reflects on a time when she took a stranger’s solemn staring as an act of hostility, but was instead pleasantly surprised.
…it was quite an experience going out [...]

This post was originally published at Racialicious on June 8, 2006.
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
(First heard about this case on Blogging Baby.)
Olivia Shelltrack and Fondrey Loving are facing eviction from the house they purchased in the St. Louis suburb of Black Jack, MO. The reason? This town has an ordinance that prohibits more than three people [...]