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\"Rhodes-Courter expands on life beyond the foster care system, the joys and heartbreak with a family she's created, and her efforts to make peace with her past\"--Amazon.com.
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Motherhood So White
The story every mother in America needs to read.As featured on NPR and the TODAY Show.All moms have to deal with choosing baby names, potty training, finding your village, and answering your kid's tough questions, but if you are raising a Black child, you have to deal with a lot more than that.Especially if you're a single Black mom.
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Lucky girl
In a true story of family ties, journalist Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, comes face to face with her past when her Chinese birth family suddenly requests a reunion after more than two decades.
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Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption
Jean Paton (1908-2002) fought tirelessly to reform American adoption and to overcome prejudice against adult adoptees and women who give birth out of wedlock. Paton wrote widely and passionately about the adoption experience, corresponded with policymakers as well as individual adoptees, promoted the psychological well-being of adoptees, and facilitated reunions between adoptees and their birth parents. E. Wayne Carp's masterful biography brings to light the accomplishments of this neglected civil-rights pioneer, who paved the way for the explosive emergence of the adoption reform movement in the 1970s. Her unflagging efforts over five decades helped reverse harmful policies, practices, and laws concerning adoption and closed records, struggles that continue to this day.
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Monstrous : a transracial adoption story
Bullied by her classmates, Sarah, a Korean American girl growing up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors, channels her rage into her art and cosplay until it threatens to explode.
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Adoption and the Work of Adaptation in Jung's Couleur de peau: miel
This article examines the graphic memoir series Couleur de peau: miel by Korean Belgian adoptee Jung and its adaptation into an documentary film. Attending to the work of adaptation, this article considers how Jung engages in the production of alternative knowledge through a critical and visual interrogation of the official documentation of transnational adoption as well as through the imagining a psychic space for two mothers.
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Meeting Sophie
The baby is screaming again. My baby. I hoist her off the narrow hotel bed--again--and try to cradle her as I rock my torso back and forth in an uncomfortable straight-backed chair.
This baby does not cradle. She doesn't know how to cuddle, to be soothed in anyone's arms. She howls and arches away, squirms and flops, a sixteen-pound fish out of water. I'm not used to holding babies, and she's not used to be being held, but when I try to put her down, she wails. My arms feel chafed, raw, and my wrists ache from the hours of straining to hang on to her.
Huge tears pool in her eyes. These tears could break my heart. These screams could break my eardrums.
After years as a temporary college instructor with no real home—her family and longtime friends scattered—Nancy McCabe yearned to settle down, establish a place she could call home, and rear a child there. A tough academic job market led her to accept a position at a church-connected college in the deep South, a move that felt like an uneasy return to the conservative environment of her childhood that she thought she had left behind. McCabe had many reservations about rearing a child alone in this climate, but the desire to become a mother would not go away.
Meeting Sophie tells the story of McCabe adopting a Chinese daughter and the many obstacles she faced during the adoption and adjustment process as she renegotiated her role within her family and fought difficulties in her job. Especially poignant is her struggle to bond with a sick, grieving baby while in a foreign country during political unrest—followed, upon her return to the U.S., by a devastating loss and a career crisis.
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Review of Mackey, Inventing History in the American West: The Romance and Myths of Grace Raymond Hebard and Loughlin, Hidden Treasures of the American West: Muriel Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott
In chapters on the postwar period, the author explains how the wartime patriotic frenzy continued to threaten civil liberties, as witnessed by the Red Scare, deportations of aliens, convictions of members of the Socialist Party, and the expansion of state-sponsored criminal syndicalism legislation and convictions. (Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xxi [H11001] 234 pp. $32.50) There is little doubt that the lives of Native Americans supplied signifi cant subject matter for early twentieth-century western women writers, yet how those with literary aspirations approached indigenous cultures often differed. While each of the two books under review encompasses more than the experiences of women writing about Native Americans, both nevertheless demonstrate that our understanding of the American West and its original inhabitants is embedded within the perspectives of those authors. A Laramie icon during the early twentieth century, Hebard was a domineering member of the University of Wyoming Board of Trustees and a controversial chair in both the political economy and history departments.
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