[nickchris]

Thought I would share:

About « Adopted & Fostered Adults of the African Diaspora
Contact AFAAD « Adopted & Fostered Adults of the African Diaspora

Adopted and Fostered Adults of the African Diaspora (AFAAD):

• is a social network for adopted and fostered adults to network and create lasting friendships, through local and international gatherings.

• is a political network for adoptee activists, policy/advocacy work and research. (Providing consultation resources to adoption agencies, social work organizations, policy workers.)

• provides updated information on upcoming adoptee-related and other related African Diasporic community events.

• provides youth mentorship programs and activities for African Diasporic adopteed and fostered youth.

• provides resources to surrounding communities interested in learning about the experiences and research of cross-cultural, international, inter-racial adoption,

• contributes critical and groundbreaking interventions in African Diasporic scholarship,

• an international network providing support for adoptees between multiple African Diasporic sites.

[nickchris]

Thanks.. :-)

History of blacks and adoption in the US:
Adoption History: African-American Adoptions

[teendoc]

Thanks for listing this resource!

[nickchris]

You are welcome:

A couple more links to peruse around:

Black people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

African Studies: African Diaspora

[Mama Julie]

Thanks Nickchris, I liked your link to black people in wikipedia. My son is adopted from Brazil. A few years back when there was a U.S. census, I was really glad that I could choose multiple races & ethnicities to describe my son. He is latino because he is from Brazil, yet he has African and European ancestry. He may also have some native-Brazilian ancestry. In Brazil, people described him as "morenino", which means little brown boy. It's not too easy finding other African-Brazilian-Americans here in Madison WI, although we do have a lot of contact with people of Mexican and African-American descent. And we're adopting 2 African-American girls too.... which means my other adopted daughter, who was born in South Korea, feels a little left out... but as it said in Wikipedia, if you use the term 'black people' to describe anyone who likes & identifies with black culture, then you would call us a fully black family. Last weekend, one of our new black girls said we are a black family. (My husband & I are causasian.)
Julie

[nickchris]

Hey Julie,
Anytime. Thanks for the insight too, it's nice when our kids can identify, love themselves, then explore, and broaden their little horizons. All love to you all.

[nickchris]

I think to soem extent this can apply across the board.

NACAC | Post-Adoption Support

• How does a child develop a positive racial or cultural identity?
  What are the affects of transsracial adoption or foster care on a child and his or her family?
  What are the special needs of adopted or foster children living in tranracial families?
  What are the parenting tasks specific to transracial families? And
• What skills, attitudes, knowledge, and resources must parents in transracial families have or develop?

[nickchris]

This is a collection of literature that I have come across, read to my children, or was suggested by the many dear folks I have met. Hopefully there are no duplicates. Enjoy :-)

Jump; from the life of Michael Jordan by Floyd Cooper
Sing Along Song by JoAnn Early Macken

Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn
(Maybe a repeat post) Jump the Sun Fairy tale classics

Feast for 10 by Cathryn Falwell (toddler counting book)

It's Potty Time: Build Early Childhood Skills distributed by Smart Kids Publishing. Published by Penton Overseas, Inc.
Pentonoverseas.com (Potty book comes in boy or girl, and in CC or AA)

Dancing in the Stars by Debbie Allen, pictures by Kadir Nelson. *

A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon

Colors Come from God Just Like Me

Wild, Wild Hair (Hello Reader!, Level 3)

The Colors of Us

If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King

Wanted Dead or Alive: The True Story of Harriet Tubman

Follow the Drinking Gourd

If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad

The Civil Rights Movement for Kids: A History With 21 Activities

Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own
Stories

The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles

Little Bill - What I Did at School
Little Bill - Me and My Family
Little Bill - I Love Animals - All the Little Bill books

We're Different, We're the Same (Sesame Street Picturebacks)

Elephant on the Loose

The Honeywood Street Fair

A Visit to the Dentist

The Big Storm

The Skin I'm In: A First Look at Racism

All the Colors of the Earth

Big Jabe

Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm

All Kinds of Children

Black is Brown is Tan

Visiting Langston

Coming on Home Soon

Bluish

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 (Yearling Newbery)

I Can Make a Difference : A Treasury to Inspire Our Children

The Measure of Our Success : Letter to My Children and Yours

Junebug

Great African Americans Coloring Book

W.I.S.E. Up! Powerbook

Sienna's Scrapbook -really great

Selavi, That is Life : A Haitian Story of Hope - true story

Show Way

Zeely

Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom

Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella

Any of the Cul-De-Sac kids books because they are multi-ethnic

White Socks Only

Raising Dragons

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale

Drylongso

Jamaica's Blue Marker

Jamaica's Find

More Than Anything Else

Jamaica Tag-Along

Jamaica and Brianna

Tap-Tap

Jamaica and the Substitute Teacher

Brianna, Jamaica, and the Dance of Spring

Goin' Someplace Special (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
Winner, 2002)

Boundless Grace: Sequel to Amazing Grace (Picture Puffins)

Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes

Starring Grace (Puffin Chapters

Amazing Grace

I Have Heard of a Land

Books Dealing with Parenting and/OR Racism
I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial
Children in a Race-Conscious World

A good magazine for the upper elementary and older age group is the Footsteps magazine editions that focuses on African American contributions in history: the magazine publisher is Cobblestone. The magazine is no longer being? published but back prints can be ordered. I purchased a few and started reviewing with big DS this summer, so far I like the format.
Footsteps Magazine

[nickchris]

I Bet She Called Me Sugar Plum -

"Shades of black; A celebration of our Children", and "Read and Rise"? by Sandra Pinkney

"Caribbean Dream" by Rachel Isadora

"I love my Hair"? by natasha Anastasia Tarpley

"He's got the Whole World in his hands" Kadir Nelson

"I told you I can Play" Brian Jordan

"A Child is Born" by Margaret Wise Brown

Our Neighborhood books by Cynthia G. Williams

"When I am old with You" by Angela Johnson and David Soman

Pretty Brown Face by Andrea and Brian Pinkney

Real nice one a spin off a true event about an AA man who 'adopted" a latino baby he found abandonded on the street. There is one word (****ed) that you would need to omit if reading to a child.
Angel City by Tony Johnston

Brown Like Me

For little kids:
The hello, goodbye window by Norton Juster ( A. Caldecot medal winner)

Please Puppy Please, and Please baby Please by Spike and Tonya Lewis Lee

Catching the Wild Waiyuuzee by Rita Williams-Garcia (about hair lol)

Is there really a Human race? by Jamie Lee Curtis

Overall story celebrating the day a baby was born:
On the night you were born, by Nancy Tillman

And for older kids and adults:
This is truly an intelligent, talented YET humble man, who defied the odds coming from a single female parent home. Great read for encouraging folks to do their best, eduation, good work ethincs, and being a good, kind person.
The Big Picture and...
Think Big by Ben Carson

Papa, do you Love Me? By Joosse and Lavallee

Ish by Peter H. Reynolds

Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Rosa by Nikki Giovanni

Moses; When Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford

Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

Honey Baby Sugar Child by Alice Faye Duncan

Do Like Kyla by Angela Johnson

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkins

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe

Woever You Are by Mem Fox

The Color of Us by Karen Katz

All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka

[nickchris]

The People Could Fly Virgina Hamilton - African American folktales.
African American Children's Stories; A Treasury of Tradition & Pride[/i] Publications International, Ltd. 2002. Folk tales, poetry, song, biographies.

Children of Promise ed. Charles Sullivan. Art, literature, poetry, song, historical and biographical sketches.
I read about the Revolutionary heroes Absalem Jones, Richard Allen and Peter Salem this morning.

In looking those books up I found this fantastic list of great books. African-American Books, Black History Month at Embracing The Child

Vivien Thomas
Partners of the Heart (Amazon)

Loved the movie:
HBO Films: Something The Lord Made

Mother to Son: Words of Wisdom, Inspiration, and Hope for Today's Young African-Amercian Men by Kimberly Crouch

Wind Flyers by Angela Johnson Illustrated by Loren Long
(The little boy in the story's great uncle was a Tuskegee Airman in WW2)

Hewitt Anderson's GREAT BIG Life by Jerdine Nelson and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
(A little boy is a tiny person the same size as us regular people, and his parents are giants

"Happy Birthday Jamela" by Niki Daly, a wonderful South African writer and illustrator.

British based: Black history workbooks, etc;
Letterbox Library BLACK HISTORY

There is also Black Threads in Kid's LIt
by Kyra E. Hicks, another author.

Devas T. Rants and Raves!: Statistics gathered by the CCBC: My thoughts

This blog lists some great books: Peter's Cross Station: Books for Kids on African American History and Culture

Anti-Racist Parent - for parents committed to raising children with an anti-racist outlook

[Sleeplvr]

Fantastic List!

[crick]

Great resources! Just a general reminder for future additions...Please do not to link directly to amazon or any links to adoption products. Retail in general and lists sites are fine, but no links to amazon/adoption shop retail links.

Thanks!

[nickchris]

Any time :-) Opps, sorry, will keep that in mind. Thanks.

[nickchris]

For the toddler
Sesame Street: The Sesame Beginnings series DVD, for ages 6 months and up.
DD loves this tape, and as usual Sesame Street shows all races interacting with their children

[nickchris]

Raising A Child Like Me, author: Shaunna Jackson
(Amazon)

http://www.nysccc.org/linkfamily/Key...sfactsheet.pdf