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Transracial Adoption and Fostering: Understanding Race & Racial Identity
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care
English - November 16, 2022 07:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsParenting Kids & Family Health & Fitness adoption adopting a baby adoptive parenting foster care foster parent trauma-informed parenting international adoption parenting infant adoption fostering Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Are you a transracial adoptive or foster parent? Have you wondered how you can help your child form a healthy racial identity. Does racial identity formation change depending on the race of the child? Today we talk about all this and more with Dr. Gina Miranda Samuels, a professor at the University of Chicago and Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture. She is a transracial adoptee and co-author of the book Multiracial Cultural Attunement.
In this episode, we cover:
Additional Resources:
Diverse Book FinderThe Brown Bookshelf – highlights Black voices writing for young readers.The Conscious Kid Multiracial Cultural Attunement by Gina Miranda Samuels and Kelly Faye Jackson, 2019Tips for parenting your transracially adopted child by Dr. Gina Samuels EmbraceRace was founded to create the community and gather the resources they needed (need!) to meet the challenges faced by those raising children in a world where race matters.Dr. Erin Winkler,Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
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