In Their Siblings’ Voices

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In Their Siblings' Voices shares the stories of twenty white non-adopted siblings who grew up with black or biracial brothers and sisters in the late 1960s and 1970s. Belonging to the same families profiled in Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories and In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees, these siblings offer their perspectives on the multiracial adoption experience, which, for them, played out against the backdrop of two tumultuous, politically charged decades. Simon and Roorda enhance their interviews with data and literature on transracial adoption. They explore whether professionals and adoption agencies adequately trained these children regarding the challenges of blended families, and they ask if, after more than thirty years, race still matters. In reevaluating their experiences, participants shed vital insight onto the challenges and triumphs of transracial adoption, and they provide new perspectives on the meaning of race and identity in such an intimate context. Few other books cover both the academic and the human dimensions of this issue. In Their Siblings' Voices enables readers to fully grasp the dynamic of living in a multiracial household and its affect on friends, school, and community.