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Tables of Contents for Inside Transracial Adoption
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The Challenges of Transracial Adoption
1
26
The I---You Bridge
2
3
The Experts Speak Out
5
2
How to Use This Book
7
1
Our Perspective on Transracial Adoption
8
2
Identifying the Real Issues
10
1
Race=Adoption
11
1
Personality Issues
12
2
Acknowledging Differences
14
4
Negative Reactions from Communities of Color
18
3
Our Working Definitions
21
4
Useful Books
25
2
Racial Identity
27
72
Protecting My Child from Her Mom, A Racist
28
3
The Experts Speak Out
31
3
Racial Identity: For People of Color
34
2
Racial Identity: For White People
36
2
Facing the Issues: Race
38
13
Respecting Feelings
51
9
Strategies: Seeking Diversity
60
11
Strategies: Concrete tools for Operating in a Racist World
71
25
Useful Books
96
3
Family matters
99
92
Together. No Matter What
100
3
The Experts Speak Out
103
2
Strengthening Family Identity
105
23
Parenting in Adoption
128
10
Birth Family
138
5
Extended Family
143
5
Siblings in Adoptive families
148
7
``You are soooooo special.'' One-Child Families
155
2
Families that Grow through Birth plus Adoption
157
2
International Adoptive Families
159
9
Single-Parent Transracial Families
168
2
Gay and Lesbian Families
170
2
Religious Choices and Beliefs
172
4
Providing for Your Childis Future
176
1
When Family Members Have Special Needs and Issues
177
11
Useful Books
188
3
Through Development's Lens
191
90
All in a Name
192
3
The Experts Speak Out
195
3
Sorting Out the Issues
198
1
Infants
199
17
Preschoolers
216
16
School-Agers
232
21
Teens
253
19
Our Children Are Our Children Forever
272
5
Useful books
277
4
Cultural Specifics in Focus
281
96
Belonging or Be-Longing?
282
3
The Experts Speak Out
285
2
Building a Foundation
287
3
Who Defines Normal?---White Identity
290
11
One Drop Rules---African American identity Issues
301
23
Racism and Rice---Asian Identity issues
324
15
Mi Familia, Mi Corazon---Latino Identity Issues
339
10
Being Seen---native American Identity Issues
349
6
More than a Box---Biracial and Multiracial Identity Issues
355
11
Claiming Identity---Whatever the Culture
366
4
Useful Books
370
7
Parting Thoughts
377
8
And so it goes
378
1
A Transracially-Adopted Child's Bill of Rights
379
1
A Transracial Adoptive Parent's Wish List
380
1
Conclusions
381
2
Test Your Knowledge
383
2
Acknowledgments
385
2
Index
387
10
About Pact, An Adoption Alliance
397
4
About Perspectives Press
401
2
About the Authors
403