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In their siblings' voices : white non-adopted siblings talk about their experiences being raised with black and biracial brothers and sisters / Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simon, Rita J. (Rita James), 1931-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interracial adoption--United States.
- Interracial adoption.
- Child development--Cross-cultural studies.
- Child development.
- Ethnicity in children--United States.
- Ethnicity in children.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- In Their Siblings' Voices shares the stories of twenty white non-adopted siblings who grew up with black or biracial brothers and sisters in the late 1960s and 1970s. Belonging to the same families profiled in Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories and In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees, these siblings offer their perspectives on the multiracial adoption experience, which, for them, played out against the backdrop of two tumultuous, politically charged decades. Simon and Roorda question whether professionals and adoption agencies adequately trained these children in the challenges presented by blended families, and they ask if, after more than thirty years, race still matters. Few books cover both the academic and the human dimensions of this issue. In Their Siblings' Voices helps readers fully grasp the dynamic of living in a multiracial household and its effect on friends, school, and community.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Argument, rhetoric, and data for and against transracial adoption
- pt. 2. Siblings tell their stories
- pt. 3. Implications of siblings' voices on transracial adoption.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9786613790927
- 9781281774507
- 1281774502
- 9780231519946
- 023151994X
- OCLC:
- 826476166
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