Learning to Disclose: A Journey of Transracial Adoption

ISBN-13: 9781433183959 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 166 str.

Joni Schwartz; Rebecca Schwartz

Opis

For anyone interested in racial identity in the complex world of blended families and adult mother and daughter relationships, this is a must read. This book is ideal for all humanities courses across disciplines from sociology, education, qualitative research, social work to race and communication studies.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - Acknowledgments - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - Carrefour, Haiti - Flatlands, Brooklyn - Minnetonka, Minnesota - Czech Republic - Vienna, Austria - Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Gulu, Uganda - Bunia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn - The Yellow Dress - Epilogue - Index.

O autorze

Joni Schwartz is Professor of Humanities at LaGuardia Community College, the City University of New York, a critical researcher, social activist scholar, mother, and grandmother. She is the co-editor of Race, Education, and Reintegrating Formerly Incarcerated Citizens: Counterstories & Counterspaces, author of twenty-four scholarly publications, and producer of two documentaries.

Rebecca Schwartz holds a BS in communications and a MS in international affairs from New York University. Her work as a humanitarian encompassed implementing emergency response programs in developing countries. She is currently an adjunct lecturer at LaGuardia Community College.