Comments on: More from that book http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/09/26/more-from-that-book/ dawn friedman's blog Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:54:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: cloudscome http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/09/26/more-from-that-book/#comment-14139 cloudscome Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:58:54 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/09/26/more-from-that-book/#comment-14139 My post on the book is here http://awrungsponge.blogspot.com/2006/10/secret-daughter-mixed-race-daughter.html I don't know how to do trackbacks. Thanks for telling me about this book and making me want to read it! My post on the book is here http://awrungsponge.blogspot.com/2006/10/secret-daughter-mixed-race-daughter.html

I don’t know how to do trackbacks. Thanks for telling me about this book and making me want to read it!

]]> By: cloudscome http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/09/26/more-from-that-book/#comment-14138 cloudscome Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:30:15 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/09/26/more-from-that-book/#comment-14138 I am reading this book now too. I am struck by how much talk there is of hair care (and now you are talking about hair every day...) and how much black cultural wisdom gets passed on to her through her aunt and uncle. The white mother doesn't give much or recognize it, but she is clearly being trained/brought up in the black cultureal expectations by her black community/family. It is facinating to me the way she shows the differences. PS I wish you had comment spell check and preview options. I always need to edit my writing! I know some mistakes are getting through and I hate that. I am reading this book now too. I am struck by how much talk there is of hair care (and now you are talking about hair every day…) and how much black cultural wisdom gets passed on to her through her aunt and uncle. The white mother doesn’t give much or recognize it, but she is clearly being trained/brought up in the black cultureal expectations by her black community/family. It is facinating to me the way she shows the differences.

PS I wish you had comment spell check and preview options. I always need to edit my writing! I know some mistakes are getting through and I hate that.

]]> By: Margie http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/09/26/more-from-that-book/#comment-14137 Margie Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:05:25 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/09/26/more-from-that-book/#comment-14137 Now that you say this, when I think back to why my husband and I were drawn to adoption from Korea, I can definitely see connections back into my childhood that influenced our decision. And our experience will undoubtedly influence someone else in our family in the future. Looking forward to seeing where this goes! Now that you say this, when I think back to why my husband and I were drawn to adoption from Korea, I can definitely see connections back into my childhood that influenced our decision. And our experience will undoubtedly influence someone else in our family in the future.

Looking forward to seeing where this goes!

]]> By: shannon http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/09/26/more-from-that-book/#comment-14136 shannon Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:26:30 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2006/09/26/more-from-that-book/#comment-14136 I think Randall Kennedy discusses this case in his Interracial Intimacies book. It sounds really familiar. We have turned down a handful of opportunities to have our profiles shown to white mothers expecting biracial children. They have been people not commited to open adoption, because they wanted the Black child to disappear. Just doesn't seem like the right scenario for our family! I think Randall Kennedy discusses this case in his Interracial Intimacies book. It sounds really familiar.

We have turned down a handful of opportunities to have our profiles shown to white mothers expecting biracial children. They have been people not commited to open adoption, because they wanted the Black child to disappear. Just doesn’t seem like the right scenario for our family!

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