Book Club: Selling Transracial Adoption

About this episode

Anna Lehnardt discusses her experiences as a transracial adoptee and insights from the book 'Selling Transracial Adoption'.

Anna Lehnardt, a Chinese-born adoptee, shares her experience and thoughts after reading "Selling Transracial Adoption" by Elizabeth Raleigh. She shares some of her own experiences as a transracial adoptee and thoughts on how policy and practice can be improved to focus more on adoptees rather than adoptive parents.

People in this episode

Hosts: Lanette Nelson, Shaun Nelson

Guest: Anna Lehnardt

Topics covered

• transracial adoption
• adoptee experiences
• adoption policy
• parenting
• cultural identity

Keywords

• transracial adoption
• adoptee
• adoption policy
• cultural identity
• Elizabeth Raleigh

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Selling Transracial Adoption

Places: China

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