The resources below were identified by Deb Reisner, NACAC’s parent support specialist who facilitates NACAC’s support services for transracial adoptive families in Minnesota.
Blogs, Videos, and Websites by Transracial Adoptees
- For Transracial and Transethnic Adoptees
- John Raible Online: Supporting the Transracial Adoption Community Through Education and Research
- A Birth Project: Transracial Adoption from One Black Girl’s Perspective
- My Mind on Paper
- Dear Adoption—Giving Voice to Those Most Affected By Adoption: Adoptees
- Harlow’s Monkey
- The Lost Daughters
- Confessions of An Adoptee
- American Indian Adoptees
- Diary of a Not-So-Angry Asian Adoptee
- The Adopted Life
- When You Don’t Look Like Your Parents
- Intercountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV)
- Reflections on Transracial Adoption
Books by Transracial Adoptees
- In Their Voices: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption by Rhonda M. Roorda
- Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption by Jane Jeong Tranka, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Sun Yung Shin, Editors
- After the Morning Calm: Reflections of Korean Americans by Sook Wilkinson and Nancy Fox
- In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories by Rita Simon and Rhonda Roorda
- Once They Hear My Name edited by Marilyn Lammert and Mary Ann Hess
- Parenting as Adoptees by Adam Chau and Kevin Ost-Vollmers
- Growing Up Black In White by Kevin D. Hoffman
- Flip the Script: Adult Adoptee Anthology (The AN-YA Project) by M.C. Maltempo
- Black Anthology: Adult Adoptees Claim Their Space (The AN-YA Project) by Diane Rene Christian
- The Harris Narratives: An Introspective Study of a Transracial Adoptee by Susan Harris O’Connor
- Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib by Jaiya John
- Decoding Our Origins: The Lived Experiences of Colombian Adoptees by Abby Forero-Hilty (and 18 additional authors)
- Dear Wonderful You: Letters to Adopted & Fostered Youth edited by Diane René Christian and Mei-Mei Akwai Ellerman, PhD