Rating: 
Summary: Engaging and Insightful
Review: Though sometimes challenging in the flow and chronology of events, Black Baby White Hands sheds light on the possible consequences of transracial adoptions to both parent and child. Even so, the redeeming factor that gives the narrative credence is the LOVE afforded the writer from his adoptive parents from the crib to the present(I think, if the relationship is ongoing). The adpotive parents taught the author how to love; hence, he could readily accept and envelope his biological family. Had he been denied unflinching love as a child, there might have been bitterness and resentment toward the biological parents for their absence in his life. The reader meets an emotional healthy person who successfully evolves from a darkness into the light of love. I better understand now why many object to transracial adoption as a viable option for African American children.
Rating: 
Summary: Not about race...Not about Adoption
Review: Was excited to get this book and learn more about transracial adoption. However, this book did not at all discuss this authors family upbringing, except briefly in the intro. Instead, it focuses on his on personal issues of which I found unrelated to adoption or race. This book is written from a 'new age' point of view which is disturbing in some cases- ie he renames himself JAIYA after a leading from the vibrations of the earth? Just too odd for me and not helpful at all...
Not a book on adoption or race.
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