NPR’s Code Switch podcast looks at race and identity in America. In this episode, NPR’s Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby talk about transracial adoption.
SHEREEN MARISOL MERAJI, HOST:
And finally today, we’re going to take a listen to a podcast I host along with Gene Demby called Code Switch. It’s all about race and identity in America. And in our most recent episode, we talked about adoption, specifically transracial adoption. Most adoptive parents in the U.S. are white, and a lot of them are adopting children who aren’t. That’s according to the Institute on Family Studies. So we put out a call to those of you who are adopted. We wanted to know, how did adoption form your sense of racial identity and your sense of self? And here’s what you told us.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: I spent the first 12 years of my life thinking that I was a little white girl. And when I found out that I wasn’t, it wasn’t just a revelation, it was an identity…
