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Traver, Amy. "Home(land) Décor: China Adoptive Parents’ Consumption of Chinese Cultural Objects for Display in their Homes" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City, Aug 11, 2007 <Not Available>. 2010-03-13 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p182450_index.html>

Traver, A. E. , 2007-08-11 "Home(land) Décor: China Adoptive Parents’ Consumption of Chinese Cultural Objects for Display in their Homes" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City Online <PDF>. 2010-03-13 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p182450_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: American parents of children adopted from China frequently consume Chinese cultural objects for display in their homes. While they defend this consumption and display as an effort to validate their children’s ethno-cultural origins, parents also reveal that it signifies and solidifies their own identifications with Chinese culture. As part of a larger research project examining China adoptive parents’ evolving ‘Chinese’ identities, this paper asks: Which parents exhibit their family’s ‘Chineseness’ in this way, and why? Through semi-structured in-depth interviews with ninety-one Americans in the China adoption process, I focus on the emergent and personal meanings that parents give to Chinese cultural objects; demonstrating how these meanings both structure parents’ consumption and yield a display differential. In doing so, I reveal that White European-parents and mothers are most likely to engage in this consumption and display; thereby, amending the three types of ethno-cultural identity consumption represented in the literature. Specifically, I expose the central role of race in ethno-cultural identity consumption; specify that the collective category of reference for ethno-cultural identity consumption is not always an ethnic category; and illustrate the ways in which global ethno-cultural identity consumption both appeals to and satisfies distinctly local constructs.

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