This list was developed by Stefani Moon, LPC, Program Director for the Open Arms Adoption Network and Joni Mantell, LCSW, Director of IAC Counseling Center made some additions
Books for Adults:
I’m Chocolate You’re Vanilla: Raising healthy black and biracial children in a race-conscious world by Marguerite A. Wright
The Harris Narratives: An introspective study of a transracial adoptee by Susan Harris O’Connor
Weaving a Family: Untangling race and adoption by Barbara Katz Rothman
Inside Transracial Adoption by Beth Hall & Gail Steinberg
Yellow: Race in American, beyond Black and White by Frank H. Wu
Raising Nuestros Ninos: Bringing up Latino children in a bicultural world by Gloria G. Rodriguez
Tripping the Color Line by Heather Dalmage
Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker
Half and Half by Claudine C. O’Hearn
Beyond the Whiteness of White by Jane Lazarre
White Like Me by Tim Wise
Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parents’ Guide To Raising Multiracial Children by Donna Nakazawa
In Their Own Voices: Transracial adoptees tell their stories by Rita Simon & Rhonda Roorda
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Tatum
When You Were Born in China. Sara Dorow.
Dim Sum, Bagels and Grits: For multicultural families by Myra Alperson
Beyond Heroes and Holidays by Enid, Menkart, Okazawa-Rey Lee
A Different Mirror: A history of multicultural America by Ronald Takai
Starting Small: Teaching Tolerance in Preschool And The Early Grades by The Teaching Tolerance Project
Growing Up Global: Raising children to be at home in the world by Homa Sabet Tavangar
Growing Up Black in White by Kevin Hofmann
Waking Up White by Debby Irving
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
What I wish my white parents knew A Magazine Article
Korea Specific and Of Wider Interest Too
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- A Euro-American on a Korean Tour at a Thai Restaurant. Chris Winston’s book explores the perspective of an adoptive parent of adoptees from Korea who are now adults. Some of her ideas for helping children with cultural heritage are very well thought out, original and useful. (A Joni Mantell favorite)
- Chinese Eyes. Marjorie Waybill. In this loving book, a first grader adopted from Korea is teased about her appearance. Though she doesn’t understand what CHINESE EYES means, she knows that the comment is meant to be unkind. She is hurt and upset.
- I wish for you a beautiful life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their Children Edited by Sara Dorow. A beautiful collection of letters from birth mothers to their children whom they gave up for adoption. To hear these mothers’ words about how difficult this decision was, and their wishes for the best life possible for their child is illuminating and heart-wrenching.
- Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging by Elena J. Kim. This book examines the history of Korean adoption, the emergence of a distinctive adoptee collective identity, and adoptee returns to Korea in relation to South Korean modernity and globalization.
- Books on Adoption from Korea: http://www.comeunity.com/adoption/books/0korea.html
Books for Children:
The Colors Of Us by Karen Katz
I Love My Hair by Natasha Tarpley
Bipty Bop Barbarshop by Natasha Tarpley
The Family Book by Todd Parr
Global Babies by The Global Fund for Children
Whoever you Are by Mem Fox
We’re Different, We’re the Same: And we’re all wonderful by Sesame Street
My Head is Full of Colors by Catherine Friend
A Chair for My Mother by Vera Williams
Shades of Black: A celebration of our children by Sandra Pinkney
Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox
To Be A Kid by Maya Ajmera
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
Red or Blue, I Like You! by Sesame Street
You’re Not My Real Mother by Molly Friedrich
My Family is Forever by Nancy Carlson
Brown Like Me by Noelle Lamperu
More More More Said the Baby by Vera Williams
Please Baby Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
It’s Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr
Same Difference by Calida Garcia Rawles
I Love My Cotton Candy Hair by Nicole Updegraff
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
I Don’t Have Your Eyes. Carrie Kitze,
Websites/Blogs:
Rage Against the Minivan www.rageagainsttheminivan.com
The Adopted Life www.theadoptedlife.com
My Mind on Paper – Kevin Hofmann www.kevinhofmann.com
PACT An Adoption Alliance www.pactadopt.org
Other Resources
Adoptive Families: The award-winning national adoption magazine, is the leading adoption information source for families before, during, and after adoption.
Tapestry Books: Online adoption book store for learning about adoption
Stefani Moon, LPC, for Workshops and Consultation: SMoon@openarmsadoption.net
IAC Counseling Center: 609-737-8750. jmantellmsw@gmail.com
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