Life Links 12

• Dear America: A Few Things This Black Woman Would Like You to Know About Race ~ acknowledging prejudice and still talking, from What Tami Said
• Adopting the Culture ~ a mainstream transracially adoptive family perspective, unfortunately, and commentary at Resist Racism
• Not Exactly Diverse ~ on racial diversity in schools and language, by Paula
• Top Ten Most Very Irksome Things Random People Say To Me These Days ~ from a visibly pregnant mom with transracially adopted preschoolers, by Heather
• Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race ~ on multiracial people, from the New York Times
• Realism in Older Child Adoption ~ Hard Month from Scraps by Nobody & What Adoptive Parents Never Talk About by DJ Dual Core
• Why I Hate White ‘Anti-Racists’ ~ the title’s harsh, but the post is worth reading, by Resist Racism
• From Scratch ~ the immeasurable worth of growing up with parents, from Process
• Garcelle Beauvais Derided for her “White Twins” ~ on a mother who is perceived as Black, her White husband, and their multiracial light-skinned infant boys, at Racialcious written by dnA

Life Links 11

• We All Walk in Different Shoes, an ad campaign from Kenneth Cole, commentary at Racialicious 

• Race is Not a Four Letter Word, by Paula

• That Privilege Meme, currently at Racialicious (part 1, part 2, & part 3) I might have to do a whole post on this one . . .

• Adoption Ad Campaign, from Harlow’s Monkey

• We All Need Wives, by Susan

• Seeing Pink, by Jason Sperber at Anti-Racist Parent, on gender-typing children’s clothes and toys

• White Privilege: To Believe or Not to Believe, by Paula (and check out those comments)

• Pushing the Cart, from Los Angelista, on socioeconomic privilege and age perspective

• Whose Issues? from Resist Racism (part 1, part 2, & a related part 3ish) and from Harlow’s Monkey, on transracially adoptive parents

Life Links 10

• James Watson (the award-winning DNA scientist who recently embarrassed himself and ended his career by saying that White people are inherently more intelligent than Black people) is 16% Black–which is 16 times more Black ancestry than most people of European descent.

• Culpability–a new blog/forum discussing ethics in adoption, especially international adoption. 

• Are values race-based? Or are we asking the wrong set of questions? White May Be Might, But It’s Not Always Right, from the Washington Post.

• ‘Special Needs’ Children need extraordinary parents, on older child adoption and adoption disruption from Harlow’s Monkey.

• Dawn at This Woman’s Work thinks outloud (and writes it all down) about adoption reform–twice. 

• Not Because We HAD to, on adoption as a first choice from Paula at Heart, Mind, and Seoul.

• Ever page through a contemporary fashion magazine and wonder Where Are All The Black Models? Maghag gives the count of models Black models in nine top magazines. And here she counts out all the models of color in December 2007 magazine issues.

• Process, the blog of a child-and-family-services social worker, often about foster care.

• A new blog find–Mixed Race America–on the mixing of races in the U.S. of A.

• Old news, but still worth mentioning–the mother of Zahara Jolie speaks out. (Zahara is also daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.) 

Life Links 9

• Don’t Stop Believing  from Harlow’s Monkey ~ on ‘older’ children (patiently) waiting in the United States for an adoptive family

• I Am Not a Bridge~ the new post by Sumeia (a.k.a. Ethnically Incorrect Daughter) at the NYT Relative Choices blog

• What is a bridge? ~ accompanying commentary on the above post at Resist Racism

• Blog is Beautiful: People of Color challenge mainstream views online ~ an article from the Boston Globe

• Check All That Apply: Multi-Racial Identity and the Re-Making of America ~ Ten years after “multi-racial” became an option on the Census, what’s the legacy of the movement that pushed for such changes and what’s the next step? from Movement Vision Lab

• The Myth of Pure Whiteness from Los Angelista ~ on being and defining multiracial

• The Nine Most Racist Disney Characters ~ WARNING: some of the comments following the piece are really offensive

• A Call for Better Adoption Safeguards ~ A reader response letter in the Washington Post

• The article (Slamming the Door on Adoption: Depriving Children Abroad of Loving Homes) to which the above writer was responding

• Whether or not this article is true, it is a powerful switch from the usual cross-cultural adoption perspective ~ from Jane’s Blog

Life Links 8

• On the use (and mis-use) of the descriptor Anti-Racist, by Lisa Marie from A Birth Project

• Considering the meaning of two generations of Korean adoptees in the same (American) family, from Heart, Mind, and Seoul

• Colorblind by Carmen Van Kerckhove (my editor at Anti-Racist Parent) from Race in the Workplace

• The debut covers of Vogue India and Vogue China feature the same White European model, from Racialicious

• The spectrum of adoption fees, from Shannon at Peter’s Cross Station

• What We Black Women Love About Our Hair from The State in South Carolina

• A new blog feature at the New York Times: Relative Choices–Adoption and the American Family [NOTE: The series seems to be focused on (a) international adoption, and (b) Asian adoption. There are 7 adoptee blogs listed on the NYT page, all 7 are international adoptees from Asia.]