Books Relating to Multiracial Families

Books discussed by the NEAMF book club:

• Black, White, & Jewish, by Rebecca Walker
• Is That Your Child?  by Marion Kilson and Florence Ladd, 2008
  Shanghai Girls  Lisa See
• What Becomes Of the Brokenhearted by E. Lynn Harris
• Cane River, by Lalita Tademy
• From Beirut to Jerusalem, by Thomas Friedman
• Hair Story, by Lori Tharp
• Interpreter of Maladies, by Jumpa Lahire 
• Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones, by Quincy Jones
• Red Moon, by Kuwana Haulsey
• The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd

Other books relating to multiracial issues:

• Is That Your Child?, by Marion Kilson and Florence Ladd, 2008
  
• Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race & Identity, by Lisa Funderburg, Morrow, 1994
• Notes of a Black White Woman, by Judy Scales-Trent, Penn U. Press, 1995
• Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are  by Brooke Kroeger BBS Public Affairs, NY
• The Chopsticks-Fork Principle, Cathy Bao Bean
  

Recommended readings on transracial adoption

(Courtesy of Prof. Ruth Arlene Howe, BU Law School):

•  Race and Child Welfare Services, by Mark E. Courtney et al.; in Child Welfare (Mar/Apr. 1996)
•  Normative Development in Transracial Adoptive Families, by Karie Frasch & Devon Books; in Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services (Apr/June 2003 v84i2
•  Adoption Laws and Practices In 2000: Serving Whose Interests?, by Ruth Arlene W. Howe; in Family Law Quarterly (Fall 1999) <!--[endif]-->
•  Transracial Adoption (TRA) Old Prejudices and Discrimination Float Under a New Halo, in Boston University Public Interest Law Journal (Winter, 1997) 
•  Black Baby White Hands: A View From the Crib, by Jaiya John (Soul Water Publishing: Silver Spring MD)<!--[endif]-->
•  Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families, by Patricia Irwin Johnston (2008
•  Crossing the Color Line: Race Parenting & Culture, by Maureen T. Reddy (Rutgers University Press, 1994) 
•  In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Own Stories, by Rita Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda (Columbia University Press, 2000) 
• In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees (2007)
• In Their Siblings' Voices: White Non-adopted Siblings Talk About Their Experiences Living with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters (2009).
  
•  Identity Process Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Children in America, by Spencer, & Markstrom-Adams; in Child Development (61, 290-310, 1990) 
•  Inside Transracial Adoption: Strength-Based, Culture-Sensitizing Parenting Strategies for Inter-County or Domestic Adoptive Families that Don’t “Match”, by G. Steinberg & B. Hall (Perspectives Press: Indianapolis, IN, 2000; pp/99-190
•  Symposium on Transracial Adoption, in Journal of Black Psychology 221-91 (May 1996)