You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
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“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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Additional information
| Publisher | Beacon Press (18 April 2023) |
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| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 216 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0807006513 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0807006511 |
| Dimensions | 15.7 x 1.98 x 23.57 cm |
by @adoption.sw.uk
I have loved the author’s work for a long time and this book is a brilliant read – part memoir and part reflections from her mentoring work and research facts, it is a crucial read for anyone involved in adoption. Especially those who say that “colour doesn’t matter” or “we don’t kind adopting a black child if its quicker/easier”. A brilliant piece of work.