interracial adoption

Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio.

"Eleven-year-old Makeda dreams of meeting her African American mother, while coping with serious problems in her white adopted family, a cross-country move, and being homeschooled"--Provided by publisher.

A memoir in which Precious Williams, the daughter of a Nigerian princess, tells the story of how she was handed off at the age of three months to her foster mother, Nanny, a sixtyish white woman in Sussex, England, who could not understand the challenges Precious faced at her all-white school, discusses the criticism she endured from her mother who, on her occasional visits, said Precious had become "too white, " and explains how she was able to forge her own identity and move forward in life.

In 1680s Virginia, sixteen-year-old Florens, a slave of Jacob Vaark who was given to the couple eight years earlier and who believes her mother gave her to them so she would not lose her infant son, struggles with issues of abandonment while trying to cope with the uncertainty of colonial life and the people with whom she lives.

Meet Jing and her family. Jing was adopted. Learn all about what being adopted means and how there are all different kinds of families and they are all special.

"[Nicole] Chung investigates the mysteries and complexities of her transracial adoption in this chronicle of unexpected family for anyone who has struggled to figure out where they belong"--OCLC.

"There are well over five million interracial marriages in the United States. Meanwhile, adoptions and remarriages are create even more multiracial families all the time. These blends of ethnicities and cultures present special challenges for kids and parents-but they also offer great opportunities and joy. This book explores the past, present, and future of multiracial families"--Provided by the publisher.

The author share her experiences as the adoptive mother of a Korean-born son, and how that relationship changed her relationship with her aging parents.

Edgar Allan, a black child, is adopted by the Reverend Fickett, his wife and four children in a privileged and conservative small town in California. The impact on their community and family is described.

A sourcebook for multicultural families formed through adoption, offering advice on finding community, creating a multicultural home, confronting prejudice, and other topics; and including lists of resource publications, goods, and services.