Culture keeping : white mothers, international adoption, and the negotiation of family difference /

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Since the early 1990s, close to 250,000 children born abroad have been adopted into the United States. Nearly half of these children have come from China or Russia. "Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference" offers the first comparati...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jacobson, Heather
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, c2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation.
Subjects:
Intercountry adoption.
Cognition and culture.
Kinship.
Mothers.
Adoptive parents.
Adoption.
Families.
Adoption
Mothers
Familles.
Mères.
Parenté.
Cognition et culture.
Adoption internationale.
mothers.
kinship.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Adoption & Fostering.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering
Adoptive parents
Cognition and culture
Families
Intercountry adoption
Kinship
Interethnische Adoption
Kulturelle Identität
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The call to keep culture
  • Constructing families : race, adoption, and the choice of country
  • The culture keeping agenda
  • Negotiating and normalizing difference
  • Adoptive families in the public eye
  • Conclusion: Keeping culture, keeping kin.

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