Transracial adoption has increased over the years and the experience of being raised by adoptive parents of a different race is not without complications. Host Roy Wood Jr. chats with author of the book, All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung, and author of the book, Surviving the White Gaze, Rebecca Carroll, about their first-hand experiences as transracial adoptees. They discuss their upbringings in predominantly white cities, why adoptive families often don’t talk about race, and their lifelong journey navigating their racial identity.
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ReplyShe lost me with “get out of your power and priviledge” that’s a huge subject that can’t be introduced so blithely. It’s the parent’s job to have power and privilege in order to make a safe environment for the child. You can’t raise a child by consensus. And it’s your power and privilege that gets your child a school that’s most comfortable for them. So that was not logical. Why would you want your parents to not have power and privilege, and then say that they should arrange a supportive environment for you?
Also, how do you not appropriate the cultural cues and objects needed to teach your child about their identity? Appropriate just means to buy and use. How can you call it exploitation to adopt a child?
This spun out of control at around 12:43 Maybe do this again but with far fewer buzzwords.
Replyits called culture, they were deprived of their ancestrial culture, therefore finding identity was their struggle. only a white person couldnt understand where any of this convo, is coming from. that fact anyone is confused, tells there really is no comprehension, nor wanting to comprehend. therefore they will be ignored in society, and the american people of “color” will continue the open the eyes to help change the fabric of this nation through “race”.
ReplySo my POV is that I’m a Third Culture Kid. So it makes no sense to me that anyone would feel they “have to” choose between their Korean identity or their American one. I’m pretty sure that would be “passing” in any case. I make it clear what my other culture is when I meet someone because I”m specifically not trying to pass. It also shows me who has a bad reaction or a fake neutral one.
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ReplyReally important discussion! Thank you so much.
ReplyThis actually reminds me a lot of my experience as a biracial kid. My mom was Japanese, my dad was a more typical white guy from rural PA. My mom didn’t teach my Japanese growing up, she didn’t talk about Japan, She didn’t teach me to speak Japanese. But I got a lot of racism as a kid, my dad didn’t understand it and my mom told me to ignore it. I barely understood it initially and grow into the knowledge they considered me close to an alien among them as well as my mom. On my mom I started to learn about my mom’s culture (mostly through things like Anime which was about all I had access to) in high school & she hated that I was telling me I should “Embrace being American”. When I eventually met other people from Japan who were in the US they actually did much the same since I couldn’t speak the language or relate to the culture outside of things like anime.
ReplySo rich people should be taxed to the max and shouldn’t adopt any kids who will live in luxury just because they’re Black like you? And it will make you cringe? smh She could not be more offiensive. She’s claiming that my so called Black friends are thinking I should’ve known I would adopt a Black child and should’ve forced myself into their extremely tight community on the maybe chance that someday I might adopt a Black child? 48:28 Wow. There are problem solvers and there are nitpickers. Which are you?
ReplyThere are probably just as many mixed race people who were raised in an all white family and can totally relate, because their parents split up early and then they grew up with their white parent and a white step parent and white siblings as well.
Reply53:17 Best summing up! Both families are real.
ReplyAs baracial, I think that everybody just chould get together to raise the kids. A bealtiful mix of cultures and knoledge.
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