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Drawing on her own experience as a surrogate mother, Grace Y. Kao assesses the ethics of surrogacy from a feminist and progressive Christian perspective, concluding that certain kinds of surrogacy arrangements can be morally permissible-and should even be embraced. While the use of assisted reproductive technology has brought joy to countless families, surrogacy remains the most controversial path to parenthood. My Body, Their Baby helps readers sort through objections to this way of bringing children into the world. Candidly reflecting on carrying a baby for her childless friends and informed by the reproductive justice framework developed by women of color activists, Kao highlights the importance of experience in feminist methodology and Christian ethics. She shows what surrogacy is like from the perspective of women becoming pregnant for others, parents who have opted for surrogacy (including queer couples), and the surrogate-born children themselves. Developing a constructive framework of ethical norms and principles to guide the formation of surrogacy relationships, Kao ultimately offers a vision for surrogacy that celebrates the reproductive generosity and solidarity displayed through the sharing of traditionally maternal roles

Contributions come from authors spread around the globe, illuminating how the efficacy and ideologies of schooling variably unfold in differing national and historical contexts. Written by sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and cultural critics, this journal offers lively and accessible empirical work to a broad audience

Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Central Gulf Coast in August 2005,
was undoubtedly one of the worst natural disasters to strike the United
States in the age of round-the-clock media journalism. Television coverage
of Hurricane Katrina brought to the forefront the costs of disadvantage
along racial and class lines. Needless to say, the victims left behind
were disproportionately African American, elderly, and impoverished
residents of the area. While the focus of media discussions centered
around whether African Americans were abandoned by governmental agencies
or if they were to blame for not heeding the call to evacuate, there was a
complete absence of coverage and discussion of Hispanic and Asian American
residents of the area, who are also disproportionately poor and many of
whom lacked English skills to navigate the little help available to
residents. This essay briefly discusses the few newspaper articles that
examined these populations; Hispanic and Asian American journalists wrote
almost all of these articles. I then examine how the lack of attention to
these populations shapes our common understandings of race and why this
may be problematic both in the United States and in a global
environment.

Recent research suggests that children with immigrant parents tend to outperform their counterparts with native-born parents. This article examines whether the relative advantage of children of immigrants can be traced to differences in the character of parent-child relationships. Using the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS), I examine whether parent-child interaction varies among racial and generational groups. Descriptive tabulations suggest that immigrant parents are less likely to share decisionmaking power and to talk about school in general than are native-born parents. However, immigrant parents are more likely to talk about college, and their children report that they are closer to their parents than youth of native-born parents. While differences in parent-child interaction account for some of the differences in educational achievement between racial and generational groups, significant variation by race and generational status remains. Finally, I found significant variation between parenting behavior and its impact on GPA by race and ethnicity.