TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roorda,Rhonda M.
TI  - In their voices: Black Americans on transracial adoption 
SN  - 9780231172202 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HV875.64 .R66 2015
U1  - 362.734089/00973 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Interracial adoption
KW  - United States
KW  - Adoptees
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Race identity
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Foreword / by Leon W. Chestang -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: moving beyond the controversy of the transracial adoption of black and biracial children -- Jim Crow era (1877-1954) -- Evelyn Rhodes, great grandmother and matriarch -- W. Wilson Goode Sr., first black mayor of Philadelphia (1984-92) -- Cyril C. Pinder, mentor and former national football league player -- Civil rights era (1955-72) -- Arthur E. McFarlane II, great grandson of W. E. B. du Bois and advocate for the preservation of cultural heritage -- Lora Kay (pseudonym), principal of a charter school in Washington, D.C -- Chester Jackson, professional adoption worker and adoptive father -- Henry Allen, professor of sociology -- Post-civil rights era (1973-present) -- Vershawn A. Young, author and scholar -- Michelle M. Hughes, adoption attorney and adoptive mother -- Mahisha Dellinger, CEO and founder of curls -- Deneta Howland Sells, physician and civil rights advocate -- Tabitha, child welfare bureau chief -- Bryan Post, CEO of the post institute for family-centered therapy and adoptee -- Shilease Hofmann, spouse of a transracial adoptee -- Chelsey Hines, foster care alumna and transracial adoptee -- Demetrius Walker, entrepreneur and cofounder of the DN
ER  -