Intercountry adoptees tell their stories / Heather Ahn-Redding and Rita J. Simon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahn-Redding, Heather.

Contributor:

Simon, Rita J. (Rita James), 1931-2013.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercountry adoption.

Adoptees--Biography.

Adoptees.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 339 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2007]

Summary:

Intercountry Adoptees Tell Their Stories reflects the thoughts and experiences of adult transracial adoptees. The authors conducted in-depth interviews in order to understand and examine the adoptees' attitudes toward identity, culture, race, and parenting within a multicultural household. The men and women interviewed in this study offer the readers a detailed and personal glimpse into their worlds. They represent a range of positive and negative adoption stories and describe the complexities of ethnic identity formation. Each experience related in this volume is unique not only in demographic characteristics, but in the journey that each participant has undertaken in his or her transition to adulthood and identity formation. What emerges from the interviews is a broad collection of voices speaking out from all corners of the country about their adoption.

Contents:

Part I Intercountry Adoption

Part III Interviews

Korean

1 Jodi 31

2 Terry Boesch 41

3 Carrie 61

4 Christine Simpson 74

5 Casey Stell 85

6 Kate 99

7 Lisa Lim 110

8 Tony 130

9 Chris Dum 144

Vietnamese

10 Benjamin Nguyen Wexler 153

11 Ryan Killacky 164

12 Justine Case 178

13 Jennifer 189

Hispanic-Latino

14 Maria 206

15 Polly Bettencourt 227

16 Michele Matthis 238

17 Judith Craig 250

18 Tim 261

United States: African American

19 Teresa Doniger 277

United States: Caucasian

20 Adam Sackett 293

21 Flutie 317.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-328) and index.

ISBN:

9780739118559

0739118552

9780739118566

0739118560

OCLC:

74649063