How Chinese Are You? : : Adopted Chinese Youth and their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture / / Andrea Louie.
Chinese adoption is often viewed as creating new possibilities for the formation of multicultural, cosmopolitan families. For white adoptive families, it is an opportunity to learn more about China and Chinese culture, as many adoptive families today try to honor what they view as their children’s “...
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Louie, Andrea, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut How Chinese Are You? : Adopted Chinese Youth and their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture / Andrea Louie. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Background on Transnational and Transracial Adoption -- 3. Beginnings -- 4. Asian American Adoptive Parents -- 5. White Parents’ Constructions of Chineseness -- 6. Negotiating Chineseness in Everyday Life -- 7. Don’t Objectify Me -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Chinese adoption is often viewed as creating new possibilities for the formation of multicultural, cosmopolitan families. For white adoptive families, it is an opportunity to learn more about China and Chinese culture, as many adoptive families today try to honor what they view as their children’s “birth culture.” However, transnational, transracial adoption also presents challenges to families who are trying to impart in their children cultural and racial identities that they themselves do not possess, while at the same time incorporating their own racial, ethnic, and religious identities. Many of their ideas are based on assumptions about how authentic Chinese and Chinese Americans practice Chinese culture. Based on a comparative ethnographic study of white and Asian American adoptive parents over an eight year period, How Chinese Are You? explores how white adoptive parents, adoption professionals, Chinese American adoptive parents, and teens adopted from China as children negotiate meanings of Chinese identity in the context of race, culture, and family. Viewing Chineseness as something produced, rather than inherited, Andrea Louie examines how the idea of “ethnic options” differs for Asian American versus white adoptive parents as they produce Chinese adoptee identities, while re-working their own ethnic, racial, and parental identities. Considering the broader context of Asian American cultural production, Louie analyzes how both white and Asian American adoptive parents engage in changing understandings of and relationships with “Chineseness” as a form of ethnic identity, racial identity, or cultural capital over the life course. Louie also demonstrates how constructions of Chinese culture and racial identity dynamically play out between parents and their children, and for Chinese adoptee teenagers themselves as they “come of age.” How Chinese Are You? is an engaging and original study of the fluidity of race, ethnicity, and cultural identity in modern America. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Adopted children United States. Chinese Americans Ethnic identity. Chinese Ethnic identity. Intercountry adoption China. Intercountry adoption United States. Interracial adoption United States China United States. Interracial adoption United States. Racially mixed families United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110728996 print 9781479890521 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479890521.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479859887 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479859887/original |
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