How to Use transracial in a Sentence

transracial

adjective
  • 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
  • Angela Tucker believes transracial adoption should happen only as a last resort.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Pamela Bobowicz is a transracial adoptee from India who grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in New York.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • This is a complex topic, but the preponderance of the research hasn’t found an especially high rate of emotional or behavioral problems among transracial adoptees.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • For transracial adoptees going through an especially hard time right now, Field suggests seeking out community connections.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Meredith Seung Mee Buse is a Korean American transracial adoptee.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The Coalition hosted a series of YouTube panels in October, with transracial adoptees sharing their experiences.
    — NBC News, 16 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • London has come under fire for comments identifying as Korean and transracial, meaning identifying with a race different than one of biological ancestry.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2022
  • 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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