How Chinese are you? : adopted Chinese youth and their families negotiate identity and culture /

Louie, Andrea.

How Chinese are you? : adopted Chinese youth and their families negotiate identity and culture / Andrea Louie. - New York : New York University Press, [2015] - pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- A background on transnational and transracial adoption -- Beginnings: the adoption trip -- Asian American adoptive parents: freedom and flexibility -- White parents' constructions of Chineseness: preemptive parenting -- Negotiating Chineseness in everyday life -- Don't objectify me: Chinese adoptee teens -- Conclusion.

9781479890521 (cl : alk. paper) 9781479894635 (pb : alk. paper)

2015-010014


Interracial adoption--United States.
Intercountry adoption--United States.
Intercountry adoption--China.
Adopted children--United States.
Chinese Americans--Ethnic identity.
Chinese--Ethnic identity.
Multiracial families--United States.
Nhận con nuôi--Hoa Kỳ
Nhận con nuôi--Trung Quốc
Trung Quốc--Bản sắc dân tộc
Người Mỹ gốc Trung Quốc--Bản sắc dân tộc
Sociology.

HV875.64 / .L646 2015

362.734089951073 / LOU 2015