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[ Books and Articles on Multiracial Existence ]
[ Books and Articles on Transracial Adoption ]
Other Multiracial Organizations
- TTC - The Topaz Club
Founded in January, 2004, The Topaz Club (better known as 'TTC') is an online-based social/support sisterhood for biracial/multiracial women and girls who are of partial African-American descent - in combination with other heritages. - Interracial Families in Friendship
Interracial Families in Friendship is an informal sharing and support community for interracial families including black, biracial, multiethnic, and white children. Our families are located in mid-Ohio and around the state, and we generally meet in the Columbus area. - Multicultural Genealogical Center
The Center shall be a non-profit organization to document the contributions of multicultural and multiracial families to the social, cultural, political, religious, educational and economic development of the Ohio River Valley. - MAVIN Foundation
MAVIN Foundation builds healthy communities that celebrate and empower mixed heritage people and families. Our projects explore the experiences of mixed heritage people, transracial adoptees, interracial relationships and multiracial families. - HAPA Issues Forum
HIF is a California-based nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of Asian Pacific Islanders of mixed heritage and developing communities that value diversity. - Swirl
Swirl aims to unite the mixed community by providing support to mixed families, mixed individuals, transracial adoptees, and interracial/cultural couples. - Multiethnic Education Program
The "ME" Program provides educators and families culturally competent resources and strategies (including publications, trainings and videos) to ensure mixed heritage children thrive in our increasingly diverse society. - Mixed Heritage Centera
MAVIN Foundation has partnered with the Association of MultiEthnic Americans (AMEA) to launch a national clearing house of information in the form of images, resources, and referrals to organizations related to mixed heritage and transracial adoption issues. - Multiracial Interracial eXperience (MIX)
Sponsored by MAVIN Foundation, MIX is the greater Seattle area's social and action-oriented community organization for multiracial people and families, transracial adoptees and people in interracial relationships. - Fusion
Fusion is a San Francisco Bay Area-based organization that seeks to celebrate and support multiracial and transracially adoptive families and youth through a summer camp, workshops and other events. - iPride
Nonprofit, organization interested in the well-being and development of children and adults who are of more than one racial or ethnic heritage or who have been transracially adopted. - Biracial Family Network (of Chicago)
The Biracial Family Network (BFN) is a Chicago-based nonprofit community service organization that celebrates multiracial people and families. BFN is an affiliate of the Association of MultiEthnic Americans (AMEA). - American Association of Multiethnic Americans
AMEA has represented the multiethnic and transracial adoption community since 1988 and has nine affiliate organizations in the U.S. and Canada.
Books and Articles on Multiracial Existence
- Check All That Apply: Finding Wholeness as a Multiracial Person by Sundee Frazier (Paperback - Mar 2002)
- What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People by Pearl Fuyo Gaskins (Hardcover - Jun 15, 1999)
- Mixed: My Life in Black and White by Angela Nissel (Paperback - Jan 30, 2006)
- Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural by Claudine C. O'Hearn (Paperback - Jun 9, 1998)
- Raising Biracial Children by Rockquemore Kerry Ann (Paperback - Nov 28, 2005)
- Black, White, Just Right! by Marguerite W. Davol and Irene Trivas (Hardcover - Oct 1993)
- The Colors of Us by Karen Katz (Paperback - Oct 2002)
- Shifting whiteness: A life history approach to United States white parents of 'biracial' or 'black' children by Joshua Carter Woodfork (Paperback - Mar 18, 2006)
- We're Different, We're the Same (Pictureback(R) by Bobbi Kates and Joe Mathieu (Paperback - Oct 13, 1992)
- Light, Bright, And Damned Near White: Biracial And Triracial Families in America by Stephanie Rose Bird (Hardcover - May 30, 2007)
- Coping As a Biracial/Biethnic Teen (Coping) by Renea D. Nash (Library Binding - Feb 1995)
- Biracial Women in Therapy: Between the Rock of Gender and the Hard Place of Race by Angela R., Ph.D. Gillem and Cathy A., Ph.D. Thompson (Hardcover - Feb 2004)
- America in Black and White: Prom Night (DVD)
- Supporting Biracial Children's Identity Development.(Statistical Data Included): An article from: Childhood Education by Johnetta Wade Morrison and Tashel Bordere (Mar 22, 2001)
- I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World by Marguerite Wright (Paperback - May 8, 2000)
- America in Black and White: He Said, She Said (DVD)
- Communication, Race, and Family: Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families (Lea's Communication Series) by Rhunette C. Diggs
- From Black to Biracial: Transforming Racial Identity Among Americans by Kathleen Odell Korgen (Paperback - Jul 30, 1999)
- Trevor's Story: Growing Up Biracial (Meeting the Challenge) by Bethany Kandel and Carol Halebian (Library Binding - Jul 1997)
- Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma, Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies by Ann Morning (Sep 1, 2003)
- The role of the college campus environment and the racial identity development of biracial college students by Natasha Hanako Chapman (Paperback - Mar 18, 2006)
- Shades of Community and Conflict : Biracial Adults of African-American and Jewish-American Heritages by Josylyn C. Segal (Paperback - Jun 14, 1998)
- CLAIMING PLACE:BIRACIAL YOUNG ADULTS OF THE POST-CIVIL RIGHTS ERA by Marion Kilson (Hardcover - 2001)
- Black White Other Biracial Americans by Lise Funderburg (Hardcover - May 1994)
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Models and Their Application: Counseling Biracial Individuals.: An article from: Journal of Mental Health Counseling by Felito Aldarondo (Jul 1, 2001)
- The schooling experiences of black-white biracial youth: When gray matters more than black and white: (Dissertation) by Rhina M. Fernandes (Nov 1, 2005)
- Claiming a biracial identity: Resisting social constructions of race and culture: An article from: Journal of Counseling and Development : JCD by Carmen Braun Williams (Mar 31, 1999)
- Growing up biracial. (USA).: An article from: Junior Scholastic by Christy Damio (Sep 20, 2002)
- Personal narrative: Growing up biracial: An article from: Journal of Counseling and Development : JCD by Mary A Fukuyama (Mar 31, 1999)
- Everything You Need to Know About Being a Biracial/Biethnic Child (Need to Know Library) by Renea D. Nash (Hardcover - Nov 1995)
Books and Articles on Transracial Adoption
- Inside Transracial Adoption by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall (Hardcover - Nov 2000)
- Birthmarks: Transracial Adoption in Contemporary America by Sandra Patton (Paperback)
- Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib by Jaiya John, Charlene Maxwell, and Jacqueline V. Richmond (Paperback - May 5, 2005)
- In Their Own Voices by Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda (Paperback)
- Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, and Sun Yung Shin (Paperback)
- In the Best Interests of the Child: Culture, Identity and Transracial Adoption by Ivor Gaber and Jane Aldridge (Paperback - Feb 1995)
- Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption by Barbara Katz Rothman (Hardcover - May 15, 2005)
- Transracial Adoptions: An Adoptive Mother's Documentary of Racism, Injustice by Joann Lang (Paperback - Dec 2002)
- Are Those Kids Yours?: American Families With Children Adopted From Other Countries by Cheri Register (Hardcover - Nov 30, 1990)
- The Case for Transracial Adoption by Simon Rita J. (Hardcover - Mar 15, 1994)
- The Adoption Reader: Birth Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and Adopted Daughters Tell Their Stories by Susan Wadia-Ells (Paperback - Oct 1995)
- The Ethics of Transracial Adoption by Hawley Fogg-Davis (Hardcover - Jan 2002)
- Transracial Adoption: Children and Parents Speak (A Franklin Watts Library Edition) by Constance Pohl (School & Library Binding - Aug 1992)
- Transracial Adoptees and Their Families: A Study of Identity and Commitment by Rita J. Simon and Howard Altstein (Hardcover - Jan 19, 1987)
- Transracial Adoption by Rita James Simon and Howard Altstein (Hardcover - April 1977)
- The colour of difference: Journeys in transracial adoption (Paperback - Sep 30, 2001)
- Our Baby from China: An Adoption Story by Nancy D'Antonio (Hardcover - Mar 1997)
- Transracial adoption: The process of developing a cultural identity -- Dissertation by Zoe M., Shaw (Paperback)
- International Adoption: Sensitive Advice for Prospective Parents by Jean Knoll and Mary-Kate Murphy (Paperback - May 28, 1994)
- Outcome of Black children-White parents transracial adoptions by Charles Zastrow (Unknown Binding - 1977)
