Growing Up 'White,' Transracial Adoptee Learned To Be Black : NPR

Growing Up 'White,' Transracial Adoptee Learned To Be Black : NPR: A couple weeks ago, Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin spoke to , a white adoptive mother of three African-American children. Our conversation on transracial adoption drew a lot of responses, so we decided to follow up with another perspective.

Chad Goller-Sojourner is African-American. In 1972, when he was 13 months old, he was adopted by white parents in Tacoma, Wash. He and his siblings are all different races than their parents.

They were raised in a white suburb, but worked hard to expose them to other people who looked like him, and checked out every library book with a black author they could find. They even sent them to a more diverse school in a different neighborhood.