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[sciencegeek]

I was debating posting this, but have decided to because it's a really interesting article. I'm having difficulty finding a quote to post, so I guess you'll have to read it.

Black Kids in White Houses: On Race, Silence, and the Changing American Family

Interesting because in someways I can identify with not being connected to my roots - I'm the third generation on my Mom's side born in Canada, and my knowledge about my cultural heritage is fairly limited - I ask my grandmother all I can, but she was born here, yet is my closest connection to that side of my heritage.

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[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for the link - this is a fascinating article. I'm someone who can see myself adopting as a single woman someday, so transracial adoption is something that's come up for me in the past with all its thorny issues.

I'm sort of half-adopted myself, and I've found myself on the (admittedly much easier) side of things by being white in a mostly native extended family - and having parents who very strongly saw me as Jewish for having a Jewish biological father, despite Judaism totally not working that way. Add to that moving away from our hometown and relatives when I was only five, and it feels like I've always been the wrong colour, or spoken the wrong language, or been the wrong religion to feel entitled to a connection to any part of my heritage. Which, you know, not a big deal when you're white and get to be Default Canadian, but it still prompts a bit of a lonely and guilty feeling that the strong cultures in my family tree completely die off at my branch.

[sciencegeek.livejournal.com]

It's a really interesting read - I wasn't sure what it would be like when I first saw it, but thought it was really well done.