Inside Transracial Adoption

Winner of a Skipping Stones Magazine 2001 Honor Award recognizing exceptional contribution to multicultural awareness in children’s literature.

If a book could realistically carry a thirty-odd word title, then this book’s might be something like How to Get to the Place Where It Feels Almost Fun to Let People Wonder How You and Your Kids Could So Clearly Belong to One Another When You Look So Different!
This book took off like wildfire, selling out of its first printing in less than four months! The authors, co-directors of Pact: An Adoption Alliance (a California-based agency specializing in the placement of children of color), are themselves transracial adoptive parents, and they offer here cutting edge tools for fostering honesty and authenticity in matters of adoption and race!

Inside Transracial Adoption provides creative, confident, pro-active, and provocative guidance for parents who are experienced veterans or who are considering transracial adoption for the first time. Whether through domestic or international adoption the authers offer direction for building close, loving, and very real families consisting of individuals who are proud and culturally competent members of differing races.

What’s “normal?” Where do we live and go to school? Does class have an influence? How can parents become aware and informed and honest enough to combat racism both inside and outside their families? How does a child of color develop racial identity, feel that he “fits” in both culture of family and culture of origin, and build confidence as an adult of his race when raised by white parents?

Using a careful blend of academic research, social reality and personal experience, Steinberg and Hall have honed their experiences working with thousands of transracial and transcultural adoptive families and as the recipients of three federal grants on transracial adoption, to offer detailed, step-by-step, get-real guidance for families about tough issues they will have to face related to race and adoption. They do so with humor and pathos, confrontation and empathy, mixed liberally with the gutsy panache for which they are well known in the U.S. adoption community This is a must-read book that pulls no punches. It is destined to become the classic guide to living >Inside Transracial Adoption!.

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