Gina M. Samuels, PhD

The University of Chicago
School of Social Service Administration

Publications

  • Jackson, Kelly, and Gina M.Samuels. 2011. Multiracial “competence” in social work: Recommendations for culturally attuned work with multiracial individuals and families. Social Work, 56(3), 235-245.
  • Rampage, Cheryl, Marina Eovaldi, Cassandra Ma, Catherine Weigel Foy, Gina Miranda Samuels, Leah Bloom. 2011. Adoptive Families. In Normal Family Processes: Diversity and Complexity, 4th edition, ed. Froma Walsh, 222-248. New York: Guilford Press. 
  • Pryce, Julia M., and Gina M. Samuels. 2010. Renewal and risk: The dual experi­ence of motherhood and aging out of the child welfare system. Journal of Adolescent Research, 25(2), 205-230.
  • Samuels, Gina M. 2010. Building kinship and community: Relational processes of bicultural identity among adult multiracial adoptees. Family Process, 49(1), 26-42.
  • Samuels, Gina M. 2009. Ambiguous loss of home: The experience of familial (im)permanence among young adults with foster care backgrounds. Children & Youth Services Review, 31, 1229-1239.
  • Samuels, Gina M. 2009. Being raised by white people: Navigating racial difference among adopted multiracial adults. Journal of Marriage and Family 71(1): 80-94. Featured interview, Chicago Public Radio, Eight-Fourty-Eight, March 3, 2009; Summarized by the Council on Contemporary Families in "Unconventional Wisdom," April, 2009; Featured as one of the top ten most downloaded articles, October 2008-December 2008. 
  • Samuels, Gina M. 2008. A Reason, a season, or a lifetime: Relational permanence among young adults with foster care backgrounds. University of Chicago, IL: Chapin Hall. Summarized in Chicago Magazine, September-October, 2008; Summarized in Child Law and Practice, (21)3, 42-43, May, 2008; Featured in "Studies in the News," California Department of Mental Health, April 15, 2008; Cited in CRS Report for Congress "Youth transitioning from foster care: Background, federal programs, and issues for Congress, " May 21, 2008; Featured in Children's Bureau Report 9(4): p.1, for National Foster Care Month. 
  • Samuels, Gina M. and Julia M. Pryce. 2008. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger: Survivalist self-reliance as resilience and risk among young adults aging out of fos­ter care. Children & Youth Services Review 30(10): 1198-1210. Featured as one of the top ten most downloaded articles, October 2008-December 2008. 
  • Samuels, Gina M. 2007. Adoption. In World book online reference center. World Book, Inc. 21. 
  • Samuels, Gina M., and Fariyal Ross-Sheriff. 2007. Identity, oppression, and power: Feminism and intersectionality theory. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 23: 5-9. 
  • Samuels, Gina M. 2006. Beyond the rainbow: Multiraciality in the 21st century. In Our diverse society: Race and ethnicity – Implications for 21st-century American society, ed. David Wells Engstrom and Lissette M. Piedra. Washington, DC: NASW Press. 
  • Courtney, Mark E., Ada Skyles, Gina E. Miranda, Andrew Zinn, Eboni Howard, and Robert M. Goerge. 2005. Youth who run away from out-of-home care. University of Chicago. Chicago, IL: Chapin Hall Center for Children. Featured in SSA Magazine, June 2009. 
  • Courtney, Mark E., Ada Skyles, Gina E. Miranda, Andrew Zinn, Eboni Howard, and Robert M. Goerge. 2005. Youth who run away from substitute care. Issue Brief #103. University of Chicago, IL: Chapin Hall Center for Children. 
  • Miranda, Gina E. 2004. Reading between the lines: Black-white heritage and transra­cial adoption. African American Research Perspectives 10(1): 174-187. 
  • Miranda, Gina E. 2003. Domestic transracial adoption and multiraciality. In Multiracial child resource book: Living complex identities, ed. Maria P. P. Root and Matt Kelley, 108­-115. Seattle, WA: MAVIN Foundation. 
  • Coleman, Hardin L.K., Romana A. Norton, Gina E. Miranda, and Laurie McCubbin. 2003. An ecological perspective on cultural identity development. In Handbook of multicultural competencies in counseling and psychology, ed. Donald Pope-Davis, Har­din L.K. Coleman, William Ming Liu, and Rebecca L. Toporek, 38-58. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

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