Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference

by Heather Jacobson

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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 comparative analysis of these two popular adoption programs.

Heather Jacobson examines these adoptions by focusing on a relatively new social phenomenon, the practice...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0826516181

ISBN13:9780826516183

Release Date:November 2008

Publisher:Vanderbilt University Press

Length:216 Pages

Weight:0.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Related Subjects

Discrimination & Racism Ethnic Studies Marriage & Family Parenting & Relationships Race Relations Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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