"Is that your mom?" : voices of cross racially raised adults of the African diaspora

• Main Author: Snyder, Cyndy R. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP Information Age Publishing Inc., [2017]
• Series: Contemporary perspectives in race and ethnic relations.
• Subjects: Black people > Race identity > United States.; Africans > United States > Ethnic identity.; African Americans > Race identity.; Interracial adoption > United States.; Multiracial families > United States.; Ethnicity > United States.; Racism > United States.; Adoptees > Identity.; Social Science > Cultural & Ethnic Studies > American > African American & Black Studies.; Ethnic studies.; United States of America, USA.; Relating to African American, Black American people.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806608898
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-68123-851-7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (106 pages)

While White parents raising Black children has become increasingly salient in the last 20-30 years, the experience of those who grow up in these cross-racial families is much more complicated. Indeed, much of the adoption studies literature has privileged White parent voices, further silencing cross...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Learning to be cross racially raised in a racist world
• Chapter 2. Mommy, he called me the n-word: Encountering racism in school and everyday contexts
• Chapter 3. Who's talkin' 'bout race and who's not: Colorblind and race-conscious approaches to racial socialization
• Chapter 4. Finding our way: Strategies for coping with and responding to racism
• Chapter 5. Developing racial competency within america's racial divide
• References
• Appendix
• About the author.