![]() | How Chinese Are You?: Adopted Chinese Youth and their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture Subjects: 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; Chinese adoption is often viewed as creating new possibilities for the formation of multicultural, cosmopolitan families. For white adoptive families, it is an opportunity to learn more about China and Chinese culture, as many adoptive families today try to honor what they view as their children's "birth culture." However, transnational, transracial adoption also presents challenges to families who are trying to impart in their children cultural and racial identities that they themselves do not possess, while at the same time incorporating their own racial, ethnic, and religious identities. Many of their ideas are based on assumptions about how authentic Chinese and Chinese Americans practice Chinese culture. Louie Andrea : Andrea Louie is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University, where she is also affiliated with the Asian Pacific American Studies Program. She is author of Chineseness Across Borders: Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States. |
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