Mediating Cultures

Parenting in Intercultural Contexts
Herausgeber: González, Alberto; Harris, Tina M.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how parents make sense of, and respond to, differing cultural influences within their family. Chapters identify the communication strategies employed by the parents as they strive to create affirming relationships between children and their heritages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780739197707
• ISBN-10: 0739197703
• Artikelnr.: 40721911

Autorenporträt

Alberto González is professor of media & communication at Bowling Green State University. Tina Maria Harris is professor of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Parenting in Intercultural Contexts, Alberto González and
Tina M. Harris
Section I: Interpersonal Settings and Intercultural Parenting
Chapter One: Digging (in) the Playground: (In)visibility of Difference in
Multicultural Parenting, Natalia Rybas
Chapter Two: Cultural Ambiguity, Ethnic Identity, and the Bicultural
Experience:
South Asian Indian Parents and their American-born Kids, Suchitra Shenoy
and Tara A. Kulkarni
Chapter Three: The Trouble With Family Stories, Melissa Aleman and Carlos
Aleman
Chapter Four: How Caucasian Parents Communicate Identity to Chinese Adopted
Daughters, May H. Gao and Deanna Womack
Chapter Five: Black Parenting in The White House: The Emergence of an
Intercultural Model, Kimberly Moffet
Section II: Media, Social Networks and Intercultural Parenting
Chapter Six: Islam in the Midwest: Parental Values in The Learning
Channel's All American Muslim, Souhad Kahil
Chapter Seven: Googling "Latin@": Using Technology to Construct Cultural
Identity in a Bicultural Family, Jennifer Willis-Rivera
Chapter Eight: Like Tiger Mother, Like Tiger Daughter: A Content Analysis
of Eastern and Western Parenting Styles, Chin-Chung (Joy) Chao and Dexin
Tian
Chapter Nine: We're Not Like the Cleavers Any More!: Diversity and
Parenting Communication in ABC's Modern Family, Candice Thomas-Maddox and
Nicole Blau
Epilogue: The Future and Multicultural Parenting
Chapter Ten: "Dogmamis çocuga don biçmek": Visions of a Multicultural
Family, Ali E. Erol and Joris Gjata