Weaving a family : untangling race and adoption / Barbara Katz Rothman.
Rothman, Barbara Katz.
2005
HV875.64 .R68 2005 (Mapit)
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Title Weaving a family : untangling race and adoption / Barbara Katz Rothman.
Author Rothman, Barbara Katz.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 0807028282 (alk. paper)
Imprint Boston : Beacon Press books, c2005.
Language English
Description xi, 274 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number HV875.64 .R68 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.734/089/00973
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Preface : a word on theory, method, language (and source notes)
Personal strands
Family, obviously
Our story
Motherhood, adoption and race
Unraveling the pieces
Motherhood in the marketplace
Adoption in the age of genetics
Talking about race
What I learned at the Schomburg
Images
Children of a diaspora
Protégés
The pet
The trophy child
Imagine
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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