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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacobson, Heather
Language:English
Published: Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, [2008], ©2008.
Subjects:
Intercountry adoption.
Cognition and culture.
Kinship.
Mothers.
Adoptive parents.
Adoption.
Families.
Physical Description:viii, 212 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
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.