Buzzing the Blogs: Transracial Adoption: When the Parents are African American Parents & the Child is Caucasian (Source: mothertalkers.com)

mothertalkers.com — As an adoptive mother of Eastern European Jewish background (i.e. very pale skin) with children who were born in Guatemala, I am familiar with the look full of the question strangers are dying to (and sometimes do) ask me about my family: “Are those your kids?” and the assumption that my husband is Latino. However, once the stranger knows I’m their mother, the assumptions about my role with my children usually ends there. Not so when you are African American and your child is white. The roots of this reaction probably lies in racism and the history of African Americans in the US.

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