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Author:
Guida-Richards, Melissa, 1993- author.
Title:
What white parents should know about transracial adoption : an adoptee's perspective on its history, nuances, and practices / Melissa Guida-Richards ; foreword by Paula Guida.
Publisher:
North Atlantic Books,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xxiv, 230 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
Interracial adoption.
Intercountry adoption.
Adoptive parents.
Adopted children--Psychology.
Ethnicity in children.
Race awareness.
Other Authors:
Guida, Paula, writer of foreword.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Challenges of Talking to White Adoptive Parents about Race -- Toxic Positivity, Microaggressions, and Growing Up as a Transracial Adoptee -- A History of Transracial Adoption and the Adoption Industry -- Influencers, Social Media Etiquette, The Church, and The Fallacy of -- Giving Adopted Children a Better Life -- Parenting Your Adopted Child -- Search and Reunion -- Interviews with Adult Transracial Adoptees -- Interviews with Adoptive Parents -- Activities, Resources, and More.
Summary:
"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."--Amazon.com.
ISBN:
1623175828
9781623175825
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1230462826
LCCN:
2021019827
Locations:
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)
TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)
XAPE737 -- Shenandoah Public Library (Shenandoah)

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