Jane Jeong Trenka is author of The Language of Blood and Fugitive Visions.Julia Chinyere Oparah is Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Mills College and author or editor of several books, including Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth and Battling Over Birth. Sun Yung Shin is editor of A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and author of Unbearable Splendor; Rough, and Savage; and Skirt Full of Black.

"An eye-opening perspective. . . . Anyone contemplating transracial adoption will find provocative ideas."-Publishers Weekly"Provides profound insight into what it’s like to be adopted from another race or into another nation."-Library Journal"A valuable resource for those who believe that transracial, often international, adoption cannot be a curative measure-in the slightest-for the inequalities which stain the human experience."-Seven Oaks Magazine Review"Outsiders Within is not the first book to explore the experience of being adopted across racial lines, but is perhaps the most challenging and ambitious to date."-American Adoption Congress Decree

Jane Jeong Trenka is author of The Language of Blood and Fugitive Visions.Julia Chinyere Oparah is Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Mills College and author or editor of several books, including Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth and Battling Over Birth. Sun Yung Shin is editor of A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and author of Unbearable Splendor; Rough, and Savage; and Skirt Full of Black.

"An eye-opening perspective. . . . Anyone contemplating transracial adoption will find provocative ideas."-Publishers Weekly"Provides profound insight into what it’s like to be adopted from another race or into another nation."-Library Journal"A valuable resource for those who believe that transracial, often international, adoption cannot be a curative measure-in the slightest-for the inequalities which stain the human experience."-Seven Oaks Magazine Review"Outsiders Within is not the first book to explore the experience of being adopted across racial lines, but is perhaps the most challenging and ambitious to date."-American Adoption Congress Decree