READING LIST
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NEAMF BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS:
Black, White, & Jewish, by Rebecca Walker
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 BIRACIAL / MULTIRACIAL BOOKS:
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
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), or on the internet: http://web6.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/75/758/41676550w6/purl=rc2_EAIM_1…11/13/2003
Adoption Laws and Practices In 2000: Serving Whose Interests?, by Ruth Arlene W. Howe; in Family Law Quarterly (Fall 1999)
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)
Adopting After Infertility, by Patricia Irwin Johnston (Perspectives Press: Indianapolis, IN, 1992)
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)
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)