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"You should be grateful" : stories of race, identity, and transracial adoption / Angela Tucker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2022]Description: xiii, 194 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780807006511
  • 0807006513
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction: Adoptee manifesto -- Part I: Discovering -- You should be grateful -- The adoptee lounge -- How much did I cost? -- My ghost kingdom -- The search -- Part II: Experiencing -- White privilege by osmosis -- Sandy the flower man -- Unclaimed -- Filling the void -- Survivor's guilt -- Sandy's death -- I'm still looking for my baby -- The "M" word -- Part III: Reckoning -- Us vs. Them -- The sondersphere -- An out-of-bounds love.
Summary: "In "You Should Be Grateful," Tucker centers the experiences of adoptees to share deeply personal stories, well-researched history, and engrossing anecdotes from mentorship sessions with adopted youth. These perspectives challenge the fairy-tale narrative of adoption, giving way to a fuller story that explores the impacts of racism, classism, family, love, and belonging"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: Tucker is grateful for many aspects of her life, but being a Black woman adopted into a white family involved layers of rejection, loss, and complexity that cannot be summed up easily. She now serves as a mentor to other transracially adopted children. In this book she centers the experiences of adoptees to share deeply personal stories, well-researched history, and engrossing anecdotes from her mentorship sessions with adopted youth. These perspectives challenge the fairy-tale narrative of adoption, giving way to a fuller story that explores the impacts of racism, classism, family, love, and belonging. - adapted from jacket and publisher info
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges these adoptees have as they navigate multiple cultures

"Your parents are so amazing for adopting you! You should be grateful that you were adopted."

Angela Tucker is a Black woman, adopted from foster care by white parents. She has heard this microaggression her entire life, usually from well-intentioned strangers who view her adoptive parents as noble saviors.She is grateful for many aspects of her life, but being transracially adopted involves layers of rejection, loss, and complexity that cannot be summed up so easily.

In "You Should Be Grateful," Tucker centers the experiences of adoptees to share deeply personal stories, well-researched history, and engrossing anecdotes from mentorship sessions with adopted youth. These perspectives challenge the fairy-tale narrative of adoption, giving way to a fuller story that explores the impacts of racism, classism, family, love, and belonging.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Adoptee manifesto -- Part I: Discovering -- You should be grateful -- The adoptee lounge -- How much did I cost? -- My ghost kingdom -- The search -- Part II: Experiencing -- White privilege by osmosis -- Sandy the flower man -- Unclaimed -- Filling the void -- Survivor's guilt -- Sandy's death -- I'm still looking for my baby -- The "M" word -- Part III: Reckoning -- Us vs. Them -- The sondersphere -- An out-of-bounds love.

"In "You Should Be Grateful," Tucker centers the experiences of adoptees to share deeply personal stories, well-researched history, and engrossing anecdotes from mentorship sessions with adopted youth. These perspectives challenge the fairy-tale narrative of adoption, giving way to a fuller story that explores the impacts of racism, classism, family, love, and belonging"-- Provided by publisher.

Tucker is grateful for many aspects of her life, but being a Black woman adopted into a white family involved layers of rejection, loss, and complexity that cannot be summed up easily. She now serves as a mentor to other transracially adopted children. In this book she centers the experiences of adoptees to share deeply personal stories, well-researched history, and engrossing anecdotes from her mentorship sessions with adopted youth. These perspectives challenge the fairy-tale narrative of adoption, giving way to a fuller story that explores the impacts of racism, classism, family, love, and belonging. - adapted from jacket and publisher info

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