Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits

A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families

Author: Myra Alperson
ISBN: 9780374526115

An informed, comprehensive guide to raising a multicultural family.How many times do you celebrate the New Year at home? Just once? If your family is Jewish, Chinese, and a few other things besides, you might celebrate twice or even three times a year! As the rate of cross-cultural adoption grows in the United States, new traditions are emerging. These are part of a new multiculturalism which, with its attendant joys and challenges, has become a fact of life in urban, suburban and even rural America. Alperson's sourcebook offers families the first complete guide to the tangled questions that surround this important phenomenon. As the adoptive Jewish mother of Sadie, her Chinese-born daughter, Alperson is able to offer personal as well as professional insight into such topics as combining cultures in the home, confronting prejudice, and developing role models. Focusing on adoptive families - international and transracial adoption in the United States has jumped in recent years - she pro

Publisher: Macmillan
Publish Date: 2001-03-20

Subjects: Family & Relationships / Adoption & Fostering, Family & Relationships / Parenting / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Parenting)