Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States [1 ed.] 9780520299566, 9780520299559, 9780520971240, 0520299566

Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States 9780520971240

Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kins

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Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States 9780226328072

What constitutes a family? Tracing the dramatic evolution of Americans’ answer to this question over the past century, K

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Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States 0252051122, 9780252051128

Since the Korean War began, Western families have adopted more than 200,000 Korean children. Two-thirds of these adoptee

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The production and distribution of knowledge in the United States

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Embracing Differences: Transnational Cultural Flows between Japan and the United States [1. Aufl.] 9783839426005

The omnipresence and popularity of American consumer products in Japan have triggered an avalanche of writing shedding l

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The Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972 9781442621145

Exploring how and why babies were moved across borders, The Traffic in Babies is a fascinating look at how social worker

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The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru 9780822391500

Analyzes the practice of informal adoption and child circulation between communities in Peru, showing how these historic

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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States: The Suburbanization of the United States 0195049837, 9780195049831

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The Negro Family in the United States

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The Negro Family in the United States

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