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Phoebe figures she might as well take advantage of her situation and it's about then that Jackson Sinclair, the impossibly sexy policeman, starts asking some difficult questions and Phoebe has to figure out if she wants him to kiss her or arrest her.

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What a fine and complex book this is! Barbara Katz Rothman takes us, with lucidity and (often brave) good humor, through the tangle of pains and satisfactions that come with her family's challenge to the racial status quo.--Rosellen Brown, author of @lt;i@gt;Half a Heart@lt;/i@gt; and @lt;i@gt;Before and After@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Is it right for white parents to adopt African-American children? How does a white parent expose her black daughter to two cultures? Protect the child from insensitive remarks? Sociologist Barbara Katz Rothman . . . doesn't just describe what it's like to be the white mother of a black girl. Rothman skillfully debates adoption ethics, the commodification of children, and the politics of inequality in America. --Anne E. Stein, @lt;i@gt;Chicago Tribune@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; In @lt;i@gt;Weaving a Family, @lt;/i@gt; the sociologist and white mother of an African American girl provides an accessible, sensitive portrayal of the inherent sociologica

What a fine and complex book this is! Barbara Katz Rothman takes us, with lucidity and (often brave) good humor, through the tangle of pains and satisfactions that come with her family's challenge to the racial status quo.--Rosellen Brown, author of Half a Heart and Before and After <br> Is it right for white parents to adopt African-American children? How does a white parent expose her black daughter to two cultures? Protect the child from insensitive remarks? Sociologist Barbara Katz Rothman . . . doesn't just describe what it's like to be the white mother of a black girl. Rothman skillfully debates adoption ethics, the commodification of children, and the politics of inequality in America. --Anne E. Stein, Chicago Tribune <br> In Weaving a Family, the sociologist and white mother of an African American girl provides an accessible, sensitive portrayal of the inherent sociological complexities of mixed-race adoption and parenting. --Melissa Chianta, Mothering <br> A bold and passionate autobiographical account . . . of a white mother raising her adopted black daughter. Rothman is a loving mother and also a fine sociologist. The blend of these gives us an honest and insightful book. A must read. --Arlie Hochschild, author of The Commercialization of Intimate Life <br> A revealing personal account which combines sound sociological knowledge and current data with a firsthand, intimate portrayal of multiracial family life. For families contemplating transracial adoption, or interracially adoptive families, this book should be read. --Professor Howard Altstein, University of Maryland School of Social Work <br> Weaving a Family makes a remarkably original contribution to the literature on race and adoption. Writing as a mother and a sociologist, Barbara Katz Rothman provides insightful, urgent lessons on mothering children in a racist world . . . Weaving a Family is ultimately hopeful about the possibility of building just and loving relat

An examination of transracial adoption from an author who doesn't accept the concept of race and is a white mother with an adopted black daughter. Rothman (Sociology/CUNY; Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations, 1998, etc.) researched transracial adoption at the Schomberg Center to find answers to questions she had about the raising of black children by white parents. What she discovered are three recurring and disturbing paradigms: the black child as protege, taken in by white benefactor; the black child as pet, cared for and cherished by its owner so long as convenient or cute but liable to be dismissed when no longer so; and the black child as trophy, making a statement to the world about the white parents' ideology. Rothman goes on to look at how mothering-a term she prefers to parenting, even when done by a man-across race is being accomplished today. Mothering, she says, is always about raising children in one world for another, and the protective cloak of a mother's whiteness does not help the black child after it leaves home in still-racist America. Raising a black child in a white family requires not just making personal connections and weaving together a family, but weaving together the black and white communities. Rothman has an informal, easygoing style, with a knack for seeming to talk directly to her reader as she brings her own personal experiences into these sociological discussions. In the most beguiling chapter, Hair: Braiding Together Culture, Identity and Entitlement, she writes of black hair and the doing of black hair. After solemnly informing the reader that The history and politics of hair is the history and politics of race, she entertainingly recounts her own struggles to understand and cope with her young daughter's tight curls. What's not clear is whether Rothman is addressing fellow sociologists or fellow white mothers of nonwhite children, but both groups will find nuggets of wisdom here. (Kirkus Reviews)

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"Barbara Katz Rothman is a professor of sociology at the City University of New York. She has served as president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and of Sociologists for Women in Society. Her previous books include ""The Book of Life, Recreating Motherhood, The Tentative Pregnancy,"" and ""In Labor."" She lives in Brooklyn, New York."

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