About US: ‘I know my parents love me, but they don’t love my people’
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| | | |  |  | | Candid conversations about identity in 21st-century America. | | | | | | | Much of the narrative surrounding adoption is overwhelmingly positive, focusing on how people open up their homes and hearts to a child. But I was curious about the experiences of families who did transracial adoptions, in which children are a different race from their parents. While adoptees told me they were grateful to their parents, they also told me that they struggled to talk about race with their families. And many dealt with self-esteem issues from being adopted, exacerbated by being surrounded by family members and living in communities where few people looked like them. The adoptees shared their stories with me, with the hopes that they could encourage prospective adoptive parents to be more deliberate in talking about racism and discrimination that their children might face. Also in this edition, Washington Post reporter Jada Yuan shares her journey trying to understand her grandmother, famed nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu. Thanks for reading!  Transracial adoptees, children raised by adoptive parents of a different race or ethnicity, are experiencing their own racial reckoning as the nation confronts its historical scars. By Rachel Hatzipanagos ● Read more » | | | | | | More from The Post | By Elizabeth Dwoskin, Will Oremus, Craig Timberg and Nitasha Tiku ● Read more » | | | | | | What we're reading | | | Word on the street | | | | | | | | | |
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