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Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories shared the experiences of twenty-four black and biracial children who had been adopted into white families in the late 1960s and 70s. The book has since become a standard resource for families and practitioners, and now, in this sequel, we hear from the parents of these remarkable families and learn what it was like for them to raise children across racial and cultural lines.These candid interviews shed light on the issues these parents encountered, what part race played during thirty plus years of parenting, what they learned about themselves, and whether they would recommend transracial adoption to others. Combining trenchant historical and political data with absorbing firsthand accounts, Simon and Roorda once more bring an academic and human dimension to the literature on transracial adoption.

Interracial adoption --- Adoptive parents

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Intercountry adoption --- Interracial adoption --- History

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Same-sex marriage --- Interracial marriage --- Families

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Gretta Bitsilly, gin-steeped mother of two and self-proclaimed expert at standing outside the margins of ethnicity and peering in, has been all but eclipsed by the world that eludes her--as a wife, a writer, a skeptic in "the other land of Zion," Utah. Gretta has set off to Fort Defiance, Arizona, where she hopes to convince her Navajo husband, who has escaped not from his family but from alcoholism, to come home.Over a sputtering two-steps-forward, one-step-back desert journey, Gretta is diverted by chance, seizures, an inconstant memory, and the disjointed character of her irresolute quest.She is fueled by a volatile mix of rage and curiosity and is rendered careless by ambivalence toward her marriage--she knows a welcome mat will not be waiting for her, "that white girl" who can't seem to get anything right. On route Gretta finds herself lost in the landscape, in strange company, or in her own convolution of language and inner space. With a dictionary and a laptop she attempts to write herself into a better existence--a hopeful existence--and to connect points of intellectual, physical, even spiritual reference.This tale, though dark and difficult, is infused with tart, twisted humor. Confused, disheveled, self-deprecating, and self-destructive, Gretta is also sharp and funny. Here, first-time novelist Christine Allen-Yazzie breaks apart her own narrative arc but with gritty reality seals it near-shut again, if in rearrangement, drawing us into Gretta's wrestling match with herself, her husband, her addiction, and the road.

Women alcoholics --- Navajo Indians --- Deserts --- Voyages and travels --- Separated people --- Interracial marriage --- Women authors --- Journeys --- Travel books --- Travels --- Trips --- Geography --- Adventure and adventurers --- Travel --- Travelers

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Pendant la colonisation française, des dizaines de milliers d'enfants sont nés d'" Européens " et d'" indigènes ". Souvent illégitimes, non reconnus puis abandonnés par leur père, ces métis furent perçus comme un danger parce que leur existence brouillait la frontière entre " citoyens " et " sujets " au fondement de l'ordre colonial. Leur situation a pourtant varié : invisibles en Algérie, ils ont été au centre des préoccupations en Indochine. La " question métisse " a également été posée à Madagascar, en Afrique et en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Retraçant l'histoire oubliée de ces enfants de la colonie, cet ouvrage révèle une face cachée, mais fondamentale, de l'histoire de l'appartenance nationale en France : il montre comment les tentatives d'assimilation des métis ont culminé, à la fin des années 1920, avec des décrets reconnaissant la citoyenneté à ceux qui pouvaient prouver leur " race française ". Aux colonies, la nation se découvrait sous les traits d'une race. Cette législation bouleversa le destin de milliers d'individus, passant soudainement de la sujétion à la citoyenneté : ainsi, en Indochine, en 1954, 4 500 enfants furent séparés de leur mère et " rapatriés " en tant que Français. Surtout, elle introduisait la race en droit français, comme critère d'appartenance à la nation. Cela oblige à revoir le " modèle républicain " de la citoyenneté, fondé sur la figure d'un individu abstrait, adhérent volontaire à un projet politique commun et à souligner les liens entre filiation, nationalité et race.

Racially mixed people --- Miscegenation --- Métis --- Métissage --- Colonies --- History --- Histoire --- France --- History. --- Hybridity of races --- Racial amalgamation --- Racial crossing --- Race relations --- Bi-racial people --- Biracial people --- Interracial people --- Mixed race people --- Mixed-racial people --- Mulattoes --- Multiracial people --- Peoples of mixed descent --- Ethnic groups --- Métis --- Métissage --- Colonies&delete& --- Nationalité --- Citoyenneté --- Statut juridique --- Miscegenation (Racist theory)