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Organizations featured in the film

Adoption-Link
Founded in 1992, Adoption-Link facilitates the permanent placement of
African American infants and children with adoptive families. For more information, email Adoption-Link at alink@theramp.net.

Bridge Communications
Bridge Communications acts to educate and share information with
individuals, families, social service providers and schools about the
multi-cultural, multi-racial experience.

Websites

Adopting.com
An extensive adoption resources index, including links to adoption agencies and lawyers, support groups, email lists, bulletin boards and "waiting child" photo listings.

Adoption.com
Includes an adoption photolisting of children available for international adoption, chat, information for adoptive and birth parents, search and reunion tools, and more.

Adoption Alliance/Adoption for Black Children Program (ABC)
Adoption Alliance's ABC program successfully eliminated barriers to adoption by African American families. This website also features information on international adoption.

Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Provides adoption professionals and others with an interest in adoption research, policy and practice with up-to-date information, including surveys, research and curriculums.

National Adoption Information Clearinghouse (NAIC)
This website of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides birth parents, adoptees, professionals and parents with government statistics, a bibliographic database and directories.

National Adoption Center (NAC)
NAC's site features photographs of some of the 134,000 children waiting to be adopted in the United States, 60 percent of whom are from minority cultures, and a section of success stories.

National Resource Center for Special Needs Adoption
Extensive information on adopting children with special needs and support services for their families.

PACT, An Adoption Alliance
PACT places children of color in homes, counsels parents, and works with adoption professionals to initiate programs that serve children of color.

Precious Cargo
Companion website to the documentary about Operation Babylift, which brought 2,700 children from Vietnam to the United States after the Vietnam War. The story introduces the pioneering adoptive parents who embraced biracial, sometimes disabled children as their own. Site includes section on transracial adoption.

Spence-Chapin Adoption Services
Adoption resources include domestic, special needs and international adoption services, FAQs and guidelines for adoption, tips on communicating with adopted children, books, kids groups and more.

Books on Transracial Adoption

Pavao, Joyce Maguire. The Family of Adoption. Boston: Beacon Press Books, 1998.

Rush, Sharon E. Loving Across The Color Line. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

Sternberg, Gail and Beth Hall. Inside Transracial Adoption. Indianapolis: Perspectives Press, 2000.

Books on Race and Identity

Danzy Senna. Caucasia. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.

Funderburg, Lise. Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity. New York: William Morrow, 1994.

O'Hearn, Claudine Chiawei, ed. Half and Half Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.

Tatum, Beverly Daniel, Ph.D, "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" and Other Conversations About Race, New York: Basic Books, 1997.

New York Times correspondents. How Race is Lived in America: Pulling Together, Pulling Apart, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2001.

Magazines

Adoptive Families Magazine

R&W (Roots and Wings Adoption Magazine)



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