Transnational adoption was once a rarity in the United States, but Americans have been choosing to adopt children from abroad with increasing frequency since the mid-twentieth century. Korean adoptees
"Mary Waters' admirable study of Americans' ethnic choices produces a rich social-scientific yield. Its theoretical interest derives from the American irony that while ethnicity is 'supposed to be' as
Merely by choosing the term "Arab Jew" in place of "Mizrahim," Shenhav (sociology and anthropology, Tel Aviv U., Israel) begins challenging what he calls "methodological Zionism"--the epistemological