Racialized choices: Chinese adoption and the 'white noise' of blackness

Critical Sociology

Volumn 32, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 357-379

  Dorow, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adoption; Chinese American; Family kinship parenting; Identity; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750185136     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156916306777835277     Document Type: Article

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