The Dance of Identities : : Korean Adoptees and Their Journey toward Empowerment / / John D. Palmer.
Korean adoptees have a difficult time relating to any of the racial identity models because they are people of color who often grew up in white homes and communities. Biracial and nonadopted people of color typically have at least one parent whom they can racially identify with, which may also allow...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Dance of Identities
- 2. Wanting to Be Like White: Dancing with a White Cultural Identity
- 3. Opening Pandora's Box: Dancing in Between and Nowhere at All
- 4. Engaging and Reflecting: Dancing with a Racial Identity and Transracial Adoptee Identity
- 5. Questioning What I Have Done: Dancing with Tensions, Conflicts, and Contradictions
- 6. Empowering Identities: Dancing with Empowerment and Executing Social Change
- 7. Linking the Dance of Identities Theory to Life Experiences
- Notes
- References
- Subject Index
- Index of Korean Transracial Adopted Participants
- About the Author