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

by Heather Jacobson

Book Overview

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"