You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption

You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption - Paperback

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You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption - Paperback

You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption - Paperback

by Angela Tucker
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9780807093375
Author Angela Tucker
PublisherBeacon Press
GenreBiography, Education, and Relationships
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages208
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption - Paperback

You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption - Paperback

By Angela Tucker

About Angela Tucker

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.

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