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Author Grearson, Jessie Carroll

Title Love in a global village : a celebration of intercultural families in the Midwest / by Jessie Carroll Grearson & Lauren B. Smith
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 284 pages) : illustrations
Contents Family Tapestries: An Introduction -- I Spin Around You: Karen & Aria -- Family Photograph: Saad & Julie -- Part of the Family: Kim & Umeeta -- Signs: Doug & Katy -- Amazing Grace: Diane & Blong -- Hao Yin (Good Luck): Jim & Jean -- The Quilt: Kathleen & Jat -- Like Minds: Clara & George -- Seven Seas: Peter & Hueping -- The World in the Family Room: Don & Marilva -- Kai Loma (Half and Half): George & Violette -- Alterations: Janet & Andy -- Black Is Black: Murtis & Nana -- Convergence: Vilma & Tom -- Unveiled: Shirlee
Summary In praise of diversity, Jessie Grearson and Lauren Smith offer Love in a Global Village: A Celebration of Intercultural Families in the Midwest, an account of the triumphs of fifteen intercultural families and the perseverance of their relationships in midwestern America. The couples recount their courtships, their adventures and difficulties, and their individual choices to create families and build lives together despite differences of race, language, religion, and culture
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Intermarriage -- Middle West -- Case studies
Interethnic marriage -- Middle West -- Case studies
Families -- Middle West -- Case studies
Ethnicity -- Middle West
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Children's Literature.
Ethnicity
Families
Interethnic marriage
Intermarriage
Middle West
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Smith, Lauren B., 1963-
ISBN 1587293307
9781587293306