Beyond Good Intentions: A Mother Reflects On Raising Internationally Adopted Children18 reviews Cheri Register Yeong & Yeong Book Company, 2005 Straight into the heart of the white parent experience + Beyond Good Intentions A close friend visited me on a recent weekend. Needing a good book to read she pulled "Beyond Good Intentions" from my bookshelf. After she finished reading my friend reported it to be one of the best glimpses yet into the mind of a white woman. Her comment caught me by surprise. My friend ...             International Korean Adoption: A Fifty-year History of Policy and Practice Routledge, 2007 Discover the roots of international transracial adoption International Korean Adoption: A Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice explores the long history of international transracial adoption. Scholars present the expert multidisciplinary perspectives and up-to-date research on this most significant and longstanding form of international child welfare practice. ...             The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption23 reviews Barbara Bisantz Raymond Union Square Press, 2008 Amazing book + Adoption is supposed to be an act of goodness, but there are those who would corrupt it. + A worthy read --- Hard to believe + She Should Have Gotten the Chair + Wake Up Elected Officials, Wake Up Supreme Court             Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States5 reviews Rickie Solinger Hill and Wang, 2002 Explores the changing language and evolving law + a real eye opener How do the politics of choice shape issues and laws surrounding adoption, abortion and welfare in this country? Rickie Solinger's Beggars And Choosers explores the changing language and evolving law since Roe V. Wade, examining historical distinctions between ethnic and social classes and how new ...             Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib37 reviews Jaiya John Soul Water Rising, 2005 With An Open Mind You Will Be Blessed + Great Resource for Families Considering Transracial Adoption + More Than Thought - Provoking As a mother, I believe the messages in this book to be so valuable that I do not want others to miss them. This motivates my following comments. Most of the reviewers here seem to understand the spirit of this book. A few do not. In particular, the two dated prior to my own show a fundamental ...             Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship (Nation of Newcomers)4 reviews Sara Dorow NYU Press, 2006 Fascinating analysis of adoption from China + Timely and Accomplished + Complex and insightful. I have read this book from cover to cover (unlike the author of the review above), and I must say I am deeply impressed with the even-handed, nuanced analysis of this vitally important yet extremely touchy issue. I am an adoptee and a researcher and writer in the area of adoption. Dorow's ...             Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare2 reviews Dorothy Roberts Basic Civitas Books, 2003 Ms. Roberts Speaks About What People Do Not Want to Hear I read Ms. Roberts book and believe that she is on target to the destruction of the Black family. The number of African American children in foster care is not a new theory. In fact, Black children have been in the foster care system since slavery. Slavery in itself was a form of foster care. ...             Jesus Land: A Memoir (Alex Awards (Awards))102 reviews Julia Scheeres Counterpoint Press, 2005 Reporting Live From Inside Jesus Land + That's life. + A Must Read Memoir + Painful on every Page. + Excellent book, but sensitive readers beware...             Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s (Critical Social Thought) Michael Omi Routledge, 1994 First published in 1986, Racial Formation in the United States is now considered a classic in the literature on race and ethnicity. This second edition builds upon and updates Omi and Winant's groundbreaking research. In addition to a preface to the new edition, the book provides a more detailed account of the theory of racial formation processes. It includes material on the historical ...             The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades ...95 reviews Ann Fessler Penguin Press HC, The, 2006 A must read! + Birthmom's do matter. + A must read for adoptees + A must read for woman of all ages             Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption2 reviews South End Press, 2006 Groundbreaking + Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption This collection will break your heart and then mend it again. The contributors are brilliant, unflinching, angry, proud, grieving, recording, resisting, transforming, and organizing. There hasn't been a book like this in the history of adoption, let alone transracial adoption, but hopefully there ...             Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945 (Yale ...1 review Regina G. Kunzel Yale University Press, 1995 Touchy topic Summarizing Regina Kunzel's thesis in "Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945" is not an easy proposition due to the complexity of her arguments. In fact, the title of the book only describes part of the story. The author traces the ...             Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade6 reviews Rickie Solinger Routledge, 2000 An insight into how Moms lost their children to adoption + An Accurate Portrayal + Stunningly accurate account of the unwed mother experience + Ground-breaking! Solinger has dared to tell the truth.             The Language of Blood22 reviews Jane Jeong Trenka Graywolf Press, 2005 A great book + not perfect but very worth reading for anyone connected to adoption + Chaotic, But Lovely Story There were two negative reviews for this book (the third is a repeat and is unfair). Frankly neither of them show any kind of knowledge bout the psychology of an adoptee. First of all being an adoptee and a Korean national are different. Second being a parent and an adoptee is different. I've ...             Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption2 reviews South End Press, 2006 Groundbreaking + Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption This collection will break your heart and then mend it again. The contributors are brilliant, unflinching, angry, proud, grieving, recording, resisting, transforming, and organizing. There hasn't been a book like this in the history of adoption, let alone transracial adoption, but hopefully there ...             The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades ...95 reviews Ann Fessler Penguin Press HC, The, 2006 A must read! + Birthmom's do matter. + A must read for adoptees + A must read for woman of all ages             The Language of Blood22 reviews Jane Jeong Trenka Graywolf Press, 2005 A great book + not perfect but very worth reading for anyone connected to adoption + Chaotic, But Lovely Story There were two negative reviews for this book (the third is a repeat and is unfair). Frankly neither of them show any kind of knowledge bout the psychology of an adoptee. First of all being an adoptee and a Korean national are different. Second being a parent and an adoptee is different. I've ...             Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade6 reviews Rickie Solinger Routledge, 2000 An insight into how Moms lost their children to adoption + An Accurate Portrayal + Stunningly accurate account of the unwed mother experience + Ground-breaking! Solinger has dared to tell the truth.             Jesus Land: A Memoir (Alex Awards (Awards))102 reviews Julia Scheeres Counterpoint Press, 2005 Reporting Live From Inside Jesus Land + That's life. + A Must Read Memoir + Painful on every Page. + Excellent book, but sensitive readers beware...             Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s (Critical Social Thought) Michael Omi Routledge, 1994 First published in 1986, Racial Formation in the United States is now considered a classic in the literature on race and ethnicity. This second edition builds upon and updates Omi and Winant's groundbreaking research. In addition to a preface to the new edition, the book provides a more detailed account of the theory of racial formation processes. It includes material on the historical ...