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From The Editor
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Written by James A. Landrith
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Sunday, 24 September 2006 |
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September 24, 2006
The Multiracial Activist
From the Editor: I was unaware that I had my own "wing" of the multiracial movement. According to Rachel of Rachel's Tavern (http://www.rachelstavern.com/) in a comment at Mixed Media Watch, I do. Here: (http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/ ) Wow.
Funny thing, I've always gotten along with Jen and Carmen and have communicated with both of them privately and publicly.
Perhaps Rachel didn't know that when she attempted to play us against each other in her comments at the link above. Rachel's approach is similar to the "with us or against us" approach favored by the neo-conservatives running the government at present. I have great respect for Swirl and Mixed Media Watch (http://www.mixedmediawatch.com). I don't always agree 100% with their take on a given topic, but I've never felt antagonistic or as if we are separate "wings." We agree far more than we disagree. People really need to stop trying to force their own agendas on others without doing their homework first.  Be first to comment this article |  Add as favourites (49) |  Quote this article on your site | Views: 2543
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Letters to Government Agencies Signed by TMA
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Written by Coalition
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Monday, 18 September 2006 |
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September 19, 2006
Dear Member,
The undersigned organizations and individuals, concerned about immigrant, civil rights and national security, respectfully write to urge you to strongly oppose any attempts to use the appropriations process for FY 2007, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations bill, to attach extraneous provisions not included in the appropriations bills that House and Senate have already passed or will consider. It is our understanding, for example, that some Members of Congress are seeking to attach complex, controversial and unrelated immigration provisions to the DHS Appropriations bill either prior to the Conference Committee's final vote or even after this vote.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 10 December 2006 )
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Letters to Government Agencies Signed by TMA
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Written by Coalition
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Wednesday, 06 September 2006 |
September 6, 2006 An Open Letter to Majority Leader Frist: Bring S. 2590 to the Floor for a Vote! Dear Majority Leader Frist: On behalf of the millions of taxpaying citizens represented by the groups signed below, we strongly urge you to bring S. 2590, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, to the Senate floor for a vote. The bill, sponsored by Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Barack Obama (D-IL), would direct the Office of Management and Budget to create a publicly-available website that would list every entity receiving federal financial assistance, such as grants or contracts, and the totals awarded for each fiscal year. Such a website would entail very little cost and would greatly increase transparency in the distribution of government funding. At last, those who most deserve to know about this process – the American people – would have a tool to examine and evaluate the federal government’s funding decisions and priorities. Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (62) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 1900 |
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News - Intercultural and Transracial Adoption
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Written by Ezra E. H. Griffith, MD and Rachel L. Bergeron, PhD, JD
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Thursday, 31 August 2006 |
Cultural Stereotypes Die Hard: The Case of Transracial AdoptionJournal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law Ezra E. H. Griffith, MD and Rachel L. Bergeron, PhD, JD September 1, 2006 Transracial adoption (commonly understood as the adoption of black children by white families) has been the subject of a persistent debate among adoption specialists, legal advocates, mental health professionals, and even civil rights advocates in this country for a long time. This has been so despite cumulative research evidence indicating that transracial adoptees can thrive and develop into confident adults with strong senses of identity and self-esteem. We contend that the evidence undergirding transracial adoption has not been effectively persuasive because of the tenacious and ubiquitous cultural belief that children and their potential adoptive parents should be matched along racial lines. However, the cultural principle of racial matching has also been diluted by judicial decisions that have narrowly allowed the use of race as one factor rather than as the controlling factor in adoption decisions. This article focuses on the use of a third element—federal statutory attempts intended to remove race as a controlling factor in child placement decisions. We will show how as a matter of public policy, the statutory efforts were meant to promote race-neutral approaches to adoption and to support transracial adoptions. However, in practice, the statutory attempts may still leave the door open to continued race-matching, which suggests that the cultural preference for race-matching in the construction of families remains powerfully ingrained and difficult to eradicate. As a consequence, transracial adoption appears to maintain its status as a culturally suspect phenomenon.
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