Mediating Cultures (eBook)

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.

Introduction: Parenting in Intercultural Contexts, Alberto González and Tina M. HarrisSection I: Interpersonal Settings and Intercultural ParentingChapter One: Digging (in) the Playground: (In)visibility of Difference in Multicultural Parenting, Natalia RybasChapter Two: Cultural Ambiguity, Ethnic Identity, and the Bicultural Experience:South Asian Indian Parents and their American-born Kids, Suchitra Shenoy and Tara A. KulkarniChapter Three: The Trouble With Family Stories, Melissa Aleman and Carlos AlemanChapter 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 MoffetSection II: Media, Social Networks and Intercultural Parenting Chapter Six: Islam in the Midwest: Parental Values in The Learning Channel’s All American Muslim, Souhad KahilChapter Seven: Googling “Latin@”: Using Technology to Construct Cultural Identity in a Bicultural Family, Jennifer Willis-RiveraChapter Eight: Like Tiger Mother, Like Tiger Daughter: A Content Analysis of Eastern and Western Parenting Styles, Chin-Chung (Joy) Chao and Dexin TianChapter Nine: We’re Not Like the Cleavers Any More!: Diversity and Parenting Communication in ABC’s Modern Family, Candice Thomas-Maddox and Nicole BlauEpilogue: The Future and Multicultural ParentingChapter Ten: “Dogmamis çocuga don biçmek”: Visions of a Multicultural Family, Ali E. Erol and Joris Gjata