Invisible Asians : : Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism / / Kim Park ParkNelson.
The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War; as Korean adoption continued, adoptees' visibility as Asians faded as they became a geopolitical success story-all-American children in loving white families. In Invisible Asians, Kim Park Nelson analyzes t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asian American Studies Today
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 6 photographs, 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Text
- Introduction. A History of Korean American Adoption in Print
- 1. A Korean American Adoption Ethnography: Method, Theory, and Experience
- 2. "Eligible Alien Orphan": The Cold War Korean Adoptee
- 3. Adoption Research Discourse and the Rise of Transnational Adoption, 1974-1987
- 4. An Adoptee for Every Lake: Multiculturalism, Minnesota, and the Korean Transracial Adoptee
- 5. Adoptees as White Koreans: Identity, Racial Visibility, and the Politics of Passing among Korean American Adoptees
- 6. Uri Nara, Our Country: Korean American Adoptees in the Global Age
- Conclusion: The Ends of Korean Adoption
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR