Posted in adoptees, adult adoptees, african diaspora, black adoptees, isolation on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is an interesting article about Black Germans born to white German mothers with African American fathers. Many were adopted by African American families after WW2.
Germany’s ‘Brown Babies’
For many of the now-adult children of white German women and African-American GIs, adopted by families in the United States after World War II, the search for the [...]
Posted in abandonment, black adoptees, love, transracial adoptees, transracial adoption on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check out Blogher writer Laina on why love is not enough in transracial adoptions.
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Unless you have walked in a person’s shoes, you cannot understand what happens to them when they walk out of your house every morning. Love is not going to ease the pain that your child feels because their parents do not look [...]
Posted in adult adoptees, african canadian, black Canadian adoptee, black adoptees, transracial adoptees on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Want to connect with others? Join the Black Canadian Adoptees group on Facebook.
Posted in Adoption, belonging, biological family, black adoptees, death, family on June 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So I haven’t felt much like writing about adoption issues lately. Even though I’m always thinking about them. The fact of my adoption is never really that far from the surface. It is there in my relationship with my mother, with my daughters. It is always there, even when it seems not to be. Even [...]
Posted in Adoption, John Raible, adult adoptees, black adoptees, transracial adoption on April 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Please visit John Raible’s excellent blog, especially to read his series of Mock Interviews with himself where he describes his experiences as a transracial adoptee growing up in what he calls “Whitesville” and his personal and political transformation by living in racially and culturally diverse communities.
Mock Interview, Part 1
Mock Interview, Part 2
Mock Interview, Part 3
Mock [...]
Posted in Darryl McDaniels, Sarah McLachlan, Zara Phillips, adoptees, birth mother, black adoptees, film on April 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thanks Ungrateful Little Bastard for letting me know that Darryl McDaniels (yes, DMC of Run DMC!) is adopted. You can watch the documentary, Adoption Journey, about his search for and reunion with his birth mother, on his website. I don’t get VH1 and I rarely watch tv so I am always finding out about these [...]
Posted in Adoption, black adoptees, family, transracial adoptees, transracial adoption on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Posted in Adoption, Dana Inkster, adoptees, adult adoptees, black Canadian adoptee, black adoptees, film, identity, transracial adoption on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Art of Autobiography: Redux 1
Canada 2006, 5 min, Dir: Dana C. Inkster
Watch it on YouTube!
Although this film is not new, I wanted to highlight it here. Metro Cinema describes the film:
This experimental video treatise is based on the documentary directed by Dana Inkster, The Art of Autobiography (2003). This documentary [...]
Posted in Zetta Elliott, adult adoptees, black adoptees, transracial adoption on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Connor’s Boy, a play about a black transracial adoptee, was staged in January 2008 as part of two new play festivals: in Cleveland, OH as part of Karamu House’s R. Joyce Whitley Festival of New Plays ARENAFEST, and in New York City as part of Maieutic Theatre Works’ Newborn Festival.
CONNOR’S BOY, a play by Zetta [...]
Posted in Jackie Kay, black adoptees on October 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“The Lord in His Wisdom” by Jackie Kay, in Granta 93: God’s Own Countries
This excellent short piece by Scottish writer Jackie Kay is an excerpt from her memoir-in-progress. Kay, a black woman who was adopted into a white family as an infant, describes meeting her birth father for the first time in Nigeria when she [...]
