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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Transracial Adoption Resource Guide

One of the topics covered during our Adoption Training Class in June was "Transracial Adoption."

Here are a list of resources noted in the handout from that class:

Children’s literature:
Whose Knees are These? by Jabari Asim
A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza
All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka
I Don’t Have Your Eyes by Carrie A. Kitze
10 Days Until Forever by David Peterson
Red or Blue, I Like You (Sesame Street) by Dalmatian Press
The Rainbow Zebra (Cloth Book) Author Unknown


Books for Parents:
I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World by Marguerite Wright

Movies:
Stand and Deliver
Remember the Titans
The Blind Side

Blacks and the LDS Church:
Genesis Group: http://www.ldsgenesisgroup.org/index.html

http://www.blacklds.org/

Other links I have found helpful:

http://www.blackcityinfo.com/california/california-san-diego.html

http://www.adoptivefamilies.com/culture_AfricanAmerican/

http://familiessupportingadoption.blogspot.com/2010/03/article-transracial-adoptees-can.html

***If you have any great books or resources about transracial adoption, please post a comment on the blog so we can share this information with the group.

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