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Surviving the White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll
4.0
emotional reflective fast-paced
It is always weird for me to rate memoirs because it feels like judging a person's life, not their writing. That said, as a WOC and transracial, interracial adoptee, I am really glad this book exists. Too often as an adoptee AND as a WOC, our stories are over looked and when they are told, they are over simplified and told from the white parent perspective. "Surviving the White Gaze" does a beautiful job at sharing all of the complexities of adoption and growing up in a transracial home in a white community. My hope is that adoptee voices continue to be amplified and centered in the adoption story, so that other adoptees can realize their feelings of trauma are not alone. 
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