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Broken Links, Enduring Ties: American Adoption across Race, Class, and Nation
Linda Seligmann
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Description for Broken Links, Enduring Ties: American Adoption across Race, Class, and Nation
Hardback. This groundbreaking book investigates comparatively how transnational and interracial adoptions are affecting the dynamics of family-making in America. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Family-making in America is in a state of flux—the ways people compose their families is changing, including those who choose to adopt. Broken Links, Enduring Ties is a groundbreaking comparative investigation of transnational and interracial adoptions in America. Linda Seligmann uncovers the impact of these adoptions over the last twenty years on the ideologies and cultural assumptions that Americans hold about families and how they are constituted. Seligmann explores whether or not new kinds of families and communities are emerging as a result of these adoptions, providing a compelling narrative on how adoptive families thrive and struggle to create lasting ... Read more
Family-making in America is in a state of flux—the ways people compose their families is changing, including those who choose to adopt. Broken Links, Enduring Ties is a groundbreaking comparative investigation of transnational and interracial adoptions in America. Linda Seligmann uncovers the impact of these adoptions over the last twenty years on the ideologies and cultural assumptions that Americans hold about families and how they are constituted. Seligmann explores whether or not new kinds of families and communities are emerging as a result of these adoptions, providing a compelling narrative on how adoptive families thrive and struggle to create lasting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804786058
SKU
V9780804786058
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About Linda Seligmann
Linda Seligmann is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Graduate Programs in Anthropology at George Mason University. Her research and analysis has appeared in national newspapers and journals, including The Washington Post and on National Public Radio. She is the author of Between Reform and Revolution Political Struggles in the Peruvian Andes, 1969-1991 (1995) and Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective: ... Read more
Reviews for Broken Links, Enduring Ties: American Adoption across Race, Class, and Nation
"Seligmann's thoughtful comparison of domestic, inter-racial adoptions, and international adoptions in the U.S. is inspired. Broken Links, Enduring Ties is a moving discussion of the struggles and pleasures of individual adoptive parents and children as they work to forge viable lives and identities."
Alma Gottlieb "In this terrific book, Linda Seligmann compares the meanings that adoptive parents in the ... Read more
Alma Gottlieb "In this terrific book, Linda Seligmann compares the meanings that adoptive parents in the ... Read more