Five Books.
One Continuing Voice.
Twenty-six years of listening, learning, documenting, and elevating the lived experiences of transracial adoptees, families, and communities.
A Body of Work Built Around Voice.
These books trace an evolving conversation about transracial adoption, race, identity, family, and belonging—from the voices of adoptees and their families to the story I ultimately needed to tell myself.
From Their Voices to My Own.
Each book represents another layer of the conversation. Together, they reveal a twenty-six-year journey toward greater understanding, greater honesty, and greater space for voices that have too often been overlooked.
Adoptees
Parents
Family
Americans
Memoir
In Their Voices
Black Americans on Transracial Adoption
A landmark contribution to the literature on transracial adoption, centering the experiences and perspectives of Black Americans and examining race, identity, belonging, family, and the lifelong dimensions of growing up across racial lines.
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Five Perspectives.
One Larger Story.
Explore the books that have shaped Rhonda M. Roorda's continuing conversation about transracial adoption and identity.
In Their Own Voices
Transracial adoptees tell their stories.
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In Their Parents' Voices
Adoptive parents reflect on raising transracial adoptees.
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In Their Siblings' Voices
Siblings explore race, identity, and family.
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In Their Voices
Black Americans on transracial adoption.
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Torn from the Root
A memoir of a Black transracial adoptee.
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A Continuing Conversation
Twenty-six years of listening, learning, and elevating voices.
From Their Voices
to My Own.
For more than twenty-six years, I have listened to, learned from, and elevated the voices of others. These books represent that journey—and the continuing invitation to listen more deeply, question what we think we know, and make room for stories that deserve to be heard.
Rhonda M. Roorda