She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hopes of giving her a better life, that forever feeling slightly out of place was simply her fate as a
transracial adoptee.
Transracial identities and experiences are hotly debated.
Thus, Islam's transnational, transcultural,
transracial and translinguistic ethos, throughout history, never differentiated between black and white, African and Afghan, Levantine and Oriental, seeing all Muslims as equal denizens of the umma is today a subject of special interest in African-American Studies, and certainly to African-Americans as a whole.
In particular, we examine a little studied group, mothers whose families include adopted children who differ in terms of race (defined as a group of people sharing the same culture and history) and/or culture of origin, revealing how the resulting
transracial family structure faces stigma (or an assault on one's worth, cf.
Sarah Dow-Fleisner, lead author of the study, worked with a team of researchers to test the validity of the commonly-used
Transracial Adoptive Parenting Scale (TAPS).
If the prospective parents are not African American, they will be required to complete specified education for
transracial adoption.
Fourth, so-called
transracial adoptions (Eurasians adopting ADP's children) seem capable of muddling ORP at best.
In addition, he is seen as a rising star, having published dozens of articles on a variety of topics such as
transracial identity development.
Chapter 4, "Because I'm Blasian': Tiger Woods, Scandal, and Protecting the Blasian Brand," offers analysis on the
transracial negotiation Woods and his management team use to protect the Tiger Woods brand during his extramarital affairs scandal.
Taken as a whole, the work will inform and inspire future avenues of cross-cultural,
transracial analysis beyond the "too U.S.-centric" views of current Haitian-US studies (292).