Inside Transracial Adoption
by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall
	If a book could realistically carry a thirty-odd word title, then this book's might be something like How to Get to the Place Where It Feels Almost Fun to Let People Wonder How You and Your Kids Could So Clearly Belong to One Another When You Look So Different! Inside Transracial Adoption provides creative, confident, pro-active, and provocative guidance for parents who are experienced veterans or who are considering transracial adoption for the first time. Whether through domestic or international adoption the authers offer direction for building close, loving, and very real families consisting of individuals who are proud and culturally competent members of differing races. What's "normal?" Where do we live and go to school? Does class have an influence? How can parents become aware and informed and honest enough to combat racism both inside and outside their families? How does a child of color develop racial identity, feel that he "fits" in both culture of family and culture of origin, and build confidence as an adult of his race when raised by white parents?
Using a careful blend of academic research, social reality and personal experience, Steinberg and Hall have honed their experiences working with thousands of transracial and transcultural adoptive families and as the recipients of three federal grants on transracial adoption, to offer detailed, step-by-step, get-real guidance for families about tough issues they will have to face related to race and adoption. They do so with humor and pathos, confrontation and empathy, mixed liberally with the gutsy panache for which they are well known in the U.S. adoption community This is a must-read book that pulls no punches. It is destined to become the classic guide to living Inside Transracial Adoption! Click to view advance comments and the Table of Contents.

Inside Transracial Adoption
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Advance Buzz about Inside Transracial Adoption

Eloquent, interesting and intensely practical, you can't read this book without thinking differently about your own life as a child, a parent, and a member of our diverse society.
--Lois Melina, author of Raising Adopted Children and The Open Adoption Experience

As a first generation Korean adoptee, I carry in my bones the longing for clarity about identity and peace with my Korean and adopted nationality that Inside Transracial Adoption is all about. The authors' insights, compassion, and willingness to tackle both the joys and challenges of these pioneer families makes this a must read.
--Susan Soon-Keum Cox, transracial adoptee and Vice President of Public Policy & External Affairs, Holt International Services and editor Voices from another Place: A collection of works from a generation born in Korea and adopted to other countries

This is an honest and insightful book that is at once very personal and universal to all transracial adoptive parents. The authors tackle the very real issues; emotions, responsibilities and joys transracial adoption asks us to take on. As a transracial parent of grown children myself I wished I had had this book when they were young. insights. As a professional anti-bias educator I appreciate the authors' insistence that parents face the realities of racism in the US. Through a stimulating combination of enlightening anecdotes and wise analysis, Inside Transracial Adoption is an indispensable resource for people planning to adopt, for parents currently in transracial families and for professionals working with transracial families.
--Louise Derman Sparks, transracial adoptive parent and author of Anti-bias Curriculum and Teaching/Learning Anti Racism

With remarkable insight, admirable honesty, and gentle humor, Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall expertly guide readers through the complexities of transracial adoption -- clarifying the issues and offering critical tools to help transracial families navigate the challenges they confront on a day to day basis.
--Madelyn Freundlich, Executive Director, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute

This book will provide adoptive parents practical and useful information for parenting a child of a different race or culture from authors eminently qualified as both professionals in the field of adoption and as parents who have adopted transracially themselves.
--Joseph Crumbley, LCSW, author of Transracial Adoption and Foster Care

Steinberg and Hall candidly and eloquently bare their souls about their transracial adoption journey. They share prescriptive insights based on well-documented research and personal experience. Their children provide a unique filter through which the parents learn to appreciate the child's birth culture and the child matures to embrace a multicultural world view.
--Gloria King, M.S., Executive Director, Black Adoption Placement and Research Center

Meaty must reading for parents and professionals involved in transracial placements.
--Joe Kroll, Executive Director, North American Council for Adoptable Children

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