How Chinese are you? : adopted Chinese youth and their families negotiate identity and culture /
Andrea Louie.
- x, 291 pages ; 23 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.
Interracial adoption--United States. Intercountry adoption--United States. Intercountry adoption--China. Adopted children--United States. Chinese Americans--Ethnic identity. Chinese--Ethnic identity. Racially mixed families--United States.