{"product_id":"culture-keeping-heather-jacobson-9780826516176","title":"Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference","description":"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. \u003ci\u003eCulture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first comparative analysis of these two popular adoption programs.\u003cp\u003eHeather Jacobson examines these adoptions by focusing on a relatively new social phenomenon, the practice by international adoptive parents, mothers in particular, of incorporating aspects of their children's cultures of origin into their families' lives. \"Culture keeping\" is now standard in the adoption world, though few adoptive parents, the majority of whom are white and native-born, have experience with the ethnic practices of their children's homelands prior to adopting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacobson follows white adoptive mothers as they navigate culture keeping: from their motivations, to the pressures and constraints they face, to the content of their actual practices concerning names, food, toys, travel, cultural events, and communities of belonging. Through her interviews, she explores how women think about their children, their families, and themselves as mothers as they labor to construct or resist ethnic identities for their children, who may be perceived as birth children (because they are white) or who may be perceived as adopted (because of racial difference).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe choices these women make about culture, Jacobson argues, offer a window into dominant ideas of race and the \"American Family,\" and into how social differences are conceived and negotiated in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Heather Jacobson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826516173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826516176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanderbilt University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/28\/2008 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2009","brand":"Heather Jacobson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44063409733887,"sku":"9780826516176","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2e1bd715-d436-4cd0-ae67-f48ee0eb96d9.jpg?v=1685389392","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/culture-keeping-heather-jacobson-9780826516176","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}