What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption

What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption

An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices

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Publisher Description

The White Fragility for transracial adoption--practical tools for nurturing identity, unlearning white saviorism, and fixing the mistakes you don't even know you're making.

If you're the white parent of a transracially or internationally adopted child, you may have been told that if you try your best and work your hardest, good intentions and a whole lot of love will be enough to give your child the security, attachment, and nurturing family life they need to thrive.

The only problem? It's not true. What White Parents Should Know About Transracial Adoption breaks down the dynamics that frequently fly under the radar of the whitewashed, happily-ever-after adoption stories we hear so often.

Written by Melissa Guida-Richards--a transracial, transnational, and late-discovery adoptee--this book unpacks the mistakes you don't even know you're making and gives you the real-life tools to be the best parent you can be, to the child you love more than anything.

From original research, personal stories, and interviews with parents and adoptees, you'll learn:
What parents wish they'd known before they adopted--and what kids wish their adoptive parents had done differentlyWhat white privilege, white saviorism, and toxic positivity are...and how they show up, even when you don't mean itHow your child might feel and experience the world differently than youAll about microaggressions, labeling, and implicit biasHow to help your child connect with their cultural heritage through language, food, music, and clothingThe 5 stages of grief for adoptive parentsHow to start tough conversations, work with defensiveness, and process guilt

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2021
October 5
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
North Atlantic Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1
MB

Customer Reviews

Greysunny ,

A must read for APs or HAPs

Melissa does an amazing job of eloquently tackling difficult topics and not backing down to advocate for adoptees. I’m so sad I read the book so quickly, but this is a book I will continue to come back to again and again. So many helpful and insightful food for thought.

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