Paul Barlin: 3 books
In White America
Interracial Children and Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Jessica Keebler, director of the Los Angeles County Bureau of Adoptions in 1955, faces an almost insurmountable crisis. Theres a logjam of unadoptable babies and a severe lack of adequate foster homes for these children. The crux of this issues rests with a statute in Californias adoption law stating...
The Immigrant
A Young Man’S Trade Skills Spark His Love Affair with America’S Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
In 1903 in oppressive Russia, fifteen-year-old Yussel Reinerman must masquerade as a Christian to be accepted as an apprentice shoemaker. Despite shearing his Orthodox earlocks, isolating himself from his family, and denying his culture, his guise is ultimately discovered. Desperate and on the run...
The Yellow Line: Before the Holocaust
The First Time a State Gave an Interracial Baby to a White Family and Changed California Adoptions Forever
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Three generations of the Reinerman family desperately search out ways to survive the anti-Semitism of the Czarist Empire. Grandparents Elihu and Sarah flee the massacre of the Jews in the Novgorod ghetto in 1865. They head north to Riga where the Holy Host has not yet painted the yellow line around...