Tucker, Angela

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An interview with Angela Tucker conducted via Zoom by Maggie Yang on November 22, 2023. Angela Tucker is an African-American transracial adoptee activist, filmmaker of the Emmy-nominated Closure documentary, podcast host of The Adoptee Next Door, and acclaimed author of You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption. Based in Seattle, Washington, She is a well-known voice in transracial adoption and centers her work around shifting society’s fairy-tale narrative of adoptions. Through diversifying adoptee voices and guiding the accurate depictions of adoptee stories in modern media, Angela draws on the power of storytelling to uncover the layers of rejection, loss, and complexity of the adoption experience. She continues to support the adoptee community through initiatives like founding the Adoptee Mentoring Society. ... [Read More]

Creator: Yang, Maggie
Tucker, Angela
Subject: Youth activism
Storytelling
Transracial adoption
Media activism
Adoption
Adoptee Mentoring Society
Publication Date: July 12, 2024
ARK: ark:/87924/r4m331c24
Publisher: Duke Research Data Repository
License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Title: Tucker, Angela
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Repository: Duke Research Data Repository

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