LEADER 03633nam 2200649 450 001 9910809205503321 005 20230126210512.0 010 $a0-8047-8725-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804787253 035 $a(CKB)2670000000398225 035 $a(EBL)1332611 035 $a(OCoLC)855504082 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000953149 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12447851 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000953149 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10910001 035 $a(PQKB)10695697 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1332611 035 $a(DE-B1597)564738 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804787253 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1332611 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10784845 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769252 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000398225 100 $a20131106d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnna---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBroken links, enduring ties $eAmerican adoption across race, class, and nation /$fLinda J. Seligmann 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8047-8606-2 311 0 $a0-8047-8605-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Power and Institutions --$t2. Fate and Faith: Adoption and Popular Religiosity --$t3. China: Culture and Place in Imaginaries of Exoticism --$t4. White Russians --$t5. Black and White Crossings --$t6. Broken Links and Adoption Narratives: The Power of Storytelling --$t7. Doing School: Family Trees and Playground Banter --$t8. The Anchors of Virtual Communities --$t9. The Children?s Search and the Formation of Diasporic Communities --$tConclusion: Ties that Bind --$tAppendix: Characteristics of Adoptive Families Interviewed --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aFamily-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 ties. Seligmann observed and interviewed numerous adoptive parents and children, non-adoptive families, religious figures, teachers and administrators, and adoption brokers. The book uncovers that adoption?once wholly stigmatized?is now often embraced either as a romanticized mission of rescue or, conversely, as simply one among multiple ways to make a family. 606 $aAdoption$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aIntercountry adoption$zUnited States 606 $aInterracial adoption$zUnited States 606 $aFamilies$zUnited States 615 0$aAdoption$xSocial aspects 615 0$aIntercountry adoption 615 0$aInterracial adoption 615 0$aFamilies 676 $a362.7340973 700 $aSeligmann$b Linda J.$f1954-$0682902 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809205503321 996 $aBroken links, enduring ties$93917942 997 $aUNINA