Angela Tucker

"You Should Be Grateful" (eBook, ePUB)

Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807006528
• Artikelnr.: 64377104

Autorenporträt

Angela Tucker is the Executive Director of the Adoptee Mentoring Society and a well-known voice in the conversation about interracial adoption. Through The Adopted Life LLC, Tucker blogs, offers regular consulting for agencies and families, hosts monthly Adoptee Lounges for adult adoptees, and spends her weekends mentoring adopted youth. Tucker earned a BA in Psychology from Seattle Pacific University and lives in Seattle with her husband.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
Adoptee Manifesto
PART I: DISCOVERING
CHAPTER 1
You Should Be Grateful
CHAPTER 2
The Adoptee Lounge
CHAPTER 3
How Much Did I Cost?
CHAPTER 4
My Ghost Kingdom
CHAPTER 5
The Search
PART II: EXPERIENCING
CHAPTER 6
White Privilege by Osmosis
CHAPTER 7
Sandy the Flower Man
CHAPTER 8
Unclaimed
CHAPTER 9
Filling the Void
CHAPTER 10
Survivor’s Guilt
CHAPTER 11
Sandy’s Death
CHAPTER 12
I’m Still Looking for My Baby
CHAPTER 13
The “M” Word
PART III: RECKONING
CHAPTER 14
Us vs. Them
CHAPTER 15
The Sondersphere
CHAPTER 16
An Out-of-Bounds Love
Gratitude
Notes
Index