How to Use transracial in a Sentence

transracial

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• Lopez said it’s helpful to bring up these conversations from the perspective of being concerned for her 12-year-old brother, who is Black and a transracial adoptee.
  — NBC News, 22 Dec. 2020
• So how could parents embarking on a transracial adoption prepare themselves better to raise their children to feel seen, and prepared for the world?
  — Susan Young, PEOPLE.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• The company originally started in 2010 as Styles for Girlz, when Swint was tapped by a transracial mother who sought out her help caring for her little ones’ hair.
  — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 10 June 2019
• The growth in transracial adoptions from foster care in recent years has far outpaced the growth in same-race adoptions, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.
  — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
• The video garnered more than six million views, with transracial parents thanking Swint for her contribution in the comments section.
  — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 10 June 2019
• Yet Judge Barrett has been attacked by luminaries of the political left who are outraged that the adoptions were transracial.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2020
• Although the songs of Morissette’s 1995 breakthrough album now embroider such woke hot topics as transracial adoption and the outrages catalogued by #MeToo, the show itself is a creaky throwback.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• As a transracial Chinese adoptee who grew up in a predominantly white city in Indiana, my identity was formed around racial slurs, racial comments, and racial stereotypes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2021
• This isn’t to demonize transracial adoption but, rather, to point out the dangers of the notion that black children must be saved and that becoming a white adoptive parent is inherently a sign of kindness and benevolence.
  — Stacey Patton, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2018
• There are plenty of other conflicts to mine in this setting: the friction between older and younger feminists, transracial adoption, watching Bob Balaban toss a hat.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 20 Aug. 2021
• The Coalition hosted a series of YouTube panels in October, with transracial adoptees sharing their experiences.
  — NBC News, 16 Oct. 2020
• As the public schools were resegregated, liberals could not or would not forge a popular movement for a transracial majority of the kind Roosevelt enjoyed among the white working class.
  — Ryan D. Doerfler, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2020
• Leaders of the civil-rights movement knew that protest photography—such as the famous image of Rosa Parks riding a bus—was a successful tool to inspire transracial solidarity.
  — Myles Poydras, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2020
• For a couple of hours, a fantasy entranced us, and its extraordinary box-office success proves the breadth of its simultaneously racial and yet transracial appeal.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 23 Feb. 2018
• Over the years, Kate, 39, heard from other transracial families about moving to be near diversity — whether that meant a different school district with more dynamic demographics or a completely new city.
  — Kim Hyatt, Star Tribune, 11 Oct. 2020
• Transnational or transracial adoptees means people adopted by families of a different national or racial identity than their own.
  — Alicia Eler, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
• His ethnicity was not a consideration for me or the caseworker, but his guardian ad litem, an individual appointed by the court to look after the best interests of the child, was opposed to transracial permanency.
  — Woman's Day, 8 Mar. 2017
• For transracial adoptees, talking about race can be an uncomfortable conversation, and confronting white parents about it can be especially taxing, experts say.
  — NBC News, 5 Mar. 2021
• For transracial adoptees going through an especially hard time right now, Field suggests seeking out community connections.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021
• The film also draws out themes, well documented in research on transracial adoption, about the complexities of navigating an Asian American identity.
  — Tara Adhikari, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2021
• NBC Asian America spoke to experts on multiracial families and transracial adoption to identify ways young people of color can make these conversations easier and more fruitful.
  — NBC News, 22 Dec. 2020
• Advocates were also pushing for kinship care as an antidote to transracial adoptions, after agencies had moved a disproportionate number of Black children into the homes of white foster families.
  — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2021
• Because of the greater legacy of Black poverty, public provision helps Blacks disproportionately, but aids whites as well, and cumulatively builds transracial affinity and alliance.
  — Robert Kuttner, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• At times scathing and hilarious, the rollicking tale considers the thorny themes of assimilation, identity, pride, filial piety, transracial adoption, and interracial relationships.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2021

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