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Culture Keeping White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference Heather Jacobson vanderbilt university press • nashville © 2008 by Vanderbilt University Press Nashville, Tennessee 37235 All rights reserved 12 11 10 09 08 1 2 3 4 5 This book is printed on acid-free paper made from 30% post-consumer recycled content. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jacobson, Heather. Culture keeping : white mothers, international adoption, and the negotiation of family difference / Heather Jacobson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8265-1617-6 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8265-1618-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Intercountry adoption. 2. Cognition and culture. 3. Kinship. 4. Mothers. 5. Adoptive parents. 6. Adoption. 7. Family. I. Title. HV875.5.J33 2008 362.734089—dc22 2008022152 ...

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