MultiRacial Experience - MultiRacial Adoption Project
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This website is a component of a semester long project completed by four college students at UMass Boston. Our hope, and the intention of this website, is to provide a judgment free space where people from all different backgrounds can come together to learn about and blend ideas regarding the issues of multiracialism and adoption. Our group had a particularly intimate connection with the project material, attributed to the fact that some of our group members are transracial adoptees. Given our backgrounds and interests, we felt inspired to explore the views and attitudes of multiracial experiences within the adoptee community. Beyond some of our own personal experiences, we have incorporated the views – via interviews – of four multiracial and four monoracial adoptees belonging to various “communities”.
Race is a social construct that creates a hierarchy with whites being dominant; therefore, race is discussed with white as the center and other communities as the margins. While most diagrams place the white “racial” category in the center, our intention is to de-emphasize this stratification of race that traditional diagrams stress, instead, focusing on how each “racial” group collectively contributes (both monoracially and multiracially) to the adoptee community. The sensitive nature of our topic makes tackling the use of terminology challenging. Nothing is meant to offend anyone; furthermore, the objective of this site is to challenge traditional views by sharing new experiences.)
Interviews
Monoracial Interviews
Georgia 's Interview: Male Korean American Adoptee
Nathan's Interview: Female Korean American Adoptee
Lily's Interview: Female Vietnamese American Adoptee
Chris's Interview: Male Korean American Adoptee
Multiracial Interviews
Georgia's Interview: Female Vietnamese/African American Adoptee
Nathan's Interview: Male Vietnamese/Black Adoptee
Lily's Interview: Male African/European American Adoptee
Chris's Interview: Female Japanese/European American Adoptee
Analysis
Literature Review
Georgia's Review: "A Developmental Psychologist's View of Operation Babylift"
Nathan's Review: "The Seeds of Racial Disparity: What the First Generation of Adoptees Has Learned, and What It Can Teach"
Lily's Review: "Skin Color in Transracial and Inracial Adoptive Placements: Implications for Special Needs Adoption"
Chris's Review: "Learning to do Ethnic Identity: The Transracial/Transethnic Adoptive Family as Site and Context"
Group Overviews
Georgia's Group Overview
Nathan's Group Overview
Lily's Group Overview
Chris's Group Overview
Project Reflections
Georgia's Project Reflections
Nathan's Project Reflections
Lily's Project Reflections
Chris's Project Reflections