Mediating Cultures
Parenting in Intercultural Contexts- Editors:
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- Publisher:
- 2012
Summary
This book explores the communication challenges faced by parents as they raise children who are bi-cultural, multi-cultural, or are adopted from a heritage other than the parents. Each contributor views the family as a site of intercultural dialogue and mediation, and uses compelling studies throughout to examine the parents who creatively balance cultural influences within their families. Using television depictions of parents on Modern Family and All-American Muslim to the everyday activities of mixed-ethnicity and international families, Mediating Cultures reports the communication strategies employed by the parents as they strive to create affirming relationships between children and their heritages. This collection brings together two largely separate literatures of family communication and intercultural communication studies with accessible yet context-driven studies to explain how families integrate multiple cultural heritages and perspectives.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2012
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-7954-3
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-7955-0
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 168
- Product type
- Edited Book
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access
- Chapter One: Digging (in) the Playground No access
- Chapter Two: Cultural Ambiguity, Ethnic Identity, and the Bicultural Experience No access
- Chapter Three: The Trouble with Family Stories No access
- Chapter Four: How Caucasian Parents Communicate Identity to Adopted Chinese Daughters No access
- Chapter Five: Intercultural Parenting in the White House No access
- Chapter Six: Islam in the Midwest No access
- Chapter Seven: Googling “Latin@” No access
- Chapter Eight: Like Tiger Mother, Like Tiger Daughter No access
- Chapter Nine: We’re Not Like the Cleavers Anymore No access
- Chapter Ten: “Doğmamış Çocuğa Don Biçmek” No access
- References No access Pages 139 - 152
- Index No access Pages 153 - 164
- About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 165 - 168





