Preface : a word on theory, method, language (and source notes) -- pt. 1. Personal strands. -- Family, obviously -- Our story -- pt. 2. Motherhood, adoption, and race. -- Unraveling the pieces -- Motherhood in the marketplace -- Adoption in the age of genetics -- Talking about race -- pt. 3. What I learned at the Schomburg. -- Images -- Children of a diaspora -- Protégés -- The pet -- The trophy child -- Imagine -- pt. 4. Weaving the pieces. -- Home from the Schomburg -- Going places -- Culture : celebrating diversity -- Identity : pride and joy -- Entitlement : that can't be your baby -- Hair : braiding together culture, identity, and entitlement -- Weaving a way home.
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Barbara Katz Rothman, a noted sociologist who has explored motherhood in four previous books and has more recently explored the social implications of the human genome project, now turns her eye toward race and family. Weaving together the sociological, the historical, and the personal, Barbara Katz Rothman looks at the contemporary American family through the lens of race, race through the lens of adoption, and all--race, family, and adoption--within the context of the changing meanings of motherhood. Drawing on her own experience as the white mother of a black child, on historical research on white people raising black children from slavery to contemporary times, and pulling together work on race, adoption, and consumption, she offers us new insights for understanding the way that race and family are shaped in America today. This book is compelling reading, not only for those interested in family and society, but for anyone grappling with the myriad issues around raising a child of a different race--an estimated seven million American families in 2005. [from publisher description].
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Weaving a family.
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Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer, Bitterfeld
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Interracial adoption-- United States, Case studies.
Interracial adoption-- United States.
Adoption interraciale-- États-Unis, Cas, Études de.