Literature on Transnational Adoption

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Outsiders Within – Writing on Transracial Adoption

Jane Jeong Trenka (Editor), Julia Chinyere Oparah (Editor), and Sun Yung Shin (Editor)

ISBN: 0-89608-764-6

 

Moving beyond personal narrative, these transracially adopted writers from around the world tackle difficult questions about how to survive the racist and ethnocentric worlds they inhabit, what connects the countries relinquishing their children to the countries importing them, why poor families of color have their children removed rather than supported—about who, ultimately, they are. In their inquiry, they unseat conventional understandings of adoption politics, ultimately reframing the controversy as a debate that encompasses human rights, peace, and reproductive justice.

 

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Literary and Film Festival in Mixed Roots

 

 

Festival Co-Founders Heidi Durrow and Fanshen Cox met in New York at an audition for a show about multi-racial people.  Both were sure that the other would ’steal’ the role from the only other ‘blue-eyed, curly haired light-skinned’ girl.  When both were cast, they began a long and fruitful friendship, supporting each other as artists and through the various challenges they faced surrounding their search for identity on their own terms. The Festival is now a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a non-profit organization, and every year brings together film and book lovers, innovative and emerging artists, and multiracial families and individuals for two days of workshops, readings, film screenings and live performance including music, comedy and spoken word.