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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"transracial"”.
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Transracial adoptions: An alternative solution
This research into transracial adoptions indicated that White homes for Black children are a viable adoption resource. In this society Black children who are free for adoption require extra attention from agencies for adoption. The focus of the study was on White homes for Black children, and the …
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Exploring transracial and transethnic international adoption
… identity development for international transracial adoptees. A systematic search for studies was conducted across five databases resulting in the inclusion of 12 studies in the meta-synthesis, which was informed by meta-ethnography methodology. The study proposes a conceptual model of …
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Measuring Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Transracial Adoption
<p>Attitudes toward Transracial Adoption, or TRA (i.e., White individuals adopting a child of a different race than their own) have been largely positive in a few experimental studies conducted, with only one study (Tinkler & Horne, 2011) employing an implicit measure, the Implicit Association Task …
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Representations of Transracial Korean *Adoption in Children's Literature
… examines and analyzes representations of transracial Korean adoption in American children's literature published from 1955 to 2007. Since the 1950s, more than 200,000 Korean children have been sent from South Korea to North America and Europe to be adopted into previously all-white …
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Transracial adoption (TRA) and the development of ethnoracial identity
Research on the experience of transracial adoption and the development of identity has indicated that supports for this process are required. Research that has not named transracial adoption as negatively impacting on identity has also recommended these kinds of family supports. There has, however, …
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Parental couple experiences of transracial adoption : a phenomenological study
In South Africa, transracial adoption continues to be an option for many parents wanting to adopt a child. Previous research on transracial adoption has focused mainly on the psychological implications and the racial identity development of transracial adoptees. This qualitative study aimed to …
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Racial/cultural identity development in foster children placed in transracial foster homes
… and how foster parents assign meaning to the transracial foster care experience. Another area of interest was the preparation by the foster care system for foster parents to manage issues of racial identity. The pre-training curriculum for foster parents was subjected to a content analysis.</p>
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A co-cultural communicative exploration of gay and lesbian transracial adoptive parenthood
<p>In the United States the debate concerning transracial adoption and gay and/ or lesbian adoption has been going on since the 1970s. This research used the co-cultural theory of communication to explore how the marginalized population of gay and lesbian transracial adoptive (TRA) parents …
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A phenomenological study of the experiences of adult transracial adoptees in South Africa
… number of White children available for adoption, transracial adoption has become an option for parents, and children in need of homes. Although the ideal situation is for children to be raised by parents who racially resemble them, the South African context which is shaped by a history of …
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Beneath the Beauty: A Mixed Method Approach to Examining Identity Negotiation Among Asian Transracial Adoptees
… who have particularly complex identities: Asian transracial adoptees. In the past six decades, more than 280,000 infants and children in Asian countries were abandoned or surrendered to social welfare institutes and were subsequently adopted by American families, making Asian transracial adoptees …
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Race, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreiner
… insight into a specifically transnational and transracial feminist consciousness emerging at the turn of the nineteenth century. Identifying multiple links between the novels’ feminist concerns and their intersecting negotiations with race and empire, this comparative literary study establishes …
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The Experience and Understanding of Racial Difference in Families Among Adults of Color Adopted by White Parents
… investigation was to a) identify what transracially adopted individuals think and feel about their own race and the race of their parents/other adoptive family members, b) understand how racial differences are addressed in families formed through transracial adoption, and c) elucidate …
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A Phenomenological Exploration of Korean Adoptees’ Multiple Minority Identities
… been adopted to White families through transracial adoption (Bergquist, 2003; Lee, 2003). Transracial adoption describes the process of children being placed in a home where there are racial differences with one or both adoptive parents. Through international transracial adoption, Korean …
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The well-being and identities of 14- to 26-year-old intercountry adoptees and their non-adopted migrant peers in Western Australia
… in subjective well-being, identity processes and transracial adoption, well-being was examined in terms of physical health, happiness, satisfaction with life and adoption/migration, self-esteem, self-efficacy, competence and adaptive and problem behaviours. Identity was examined in terms of …
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"Struggles to Become ""Americans"": Historical and Contemporary Experiences of Asian Pacific American Immigrants in Children's and Young Adult Fiction, 1945--1999"
… books, the emergence of interracial family and transracial adoption stories, and so forth. The investigation of perspectives revealed that books with a social conscience are message-laden and the majority of them suffer from flawed characterization and mediocre writing. Most of the melting pot …
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Composing a Literary Adoption Memoir and Self Through Creative Nonfiction Memoir Writing
… of the closed adoption era, transnational/transracial adoption, and parenting an adoptee as an adult adoptee. For this project, I share my process and the theories that validate and inform my felt experiences as an adoptee and as an adoptive mom. I use the literary tools in the creative …
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Post-war Britain’s First Youth Subculture: The Bebop Scene in Soho, 1945–1950
… as the cultural rituals of drug consumption and transracial relations – the thesis establishes for the first time the ways in which bebop identities were constructed and articulated, how they spread to the London suburbs, and how they were received by the authorities and the mainstream media. In …
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Exploring the Family Context Among Children Adopted From China: Perceptions of Pre-Adoption Factors, Post-Adoption Experiences, and the Quality of Parent-Child Relationships
… including cultural socialization, creating a transracial family, discussing adoption, parental stress, and sibling involvement. A key finding involves parent and child reports that cultural socialization efforts (i.e., familiarizing children with Chinese culture) are linked to more positive …
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Identity Journeys: Life Stories of Women Adopted Transnationally As Children
… is available about the impact of transnational, transracial adoption on the developing child and across the life span. In order to expand and illuminate the adopted woman's story and perspective, this qualitative study explored the life stories of 20 women of color between the ages of 25-38 who …
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Africana Unmasked: Fugitive signs of Africa in Tate's British Collection
… (after Foucault) and embodying postcolonial, transracial identities; in addition, I addressed the problematics of Tate’s British Art collection as a post-imperial brand of ‘cultural capital’. Unmasking fugitive Africana was a practical methodology designed to produce artworks. So,while aware …
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