Adopting for God : : The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption / / Soojin Chung.
Explores the role played by missionaries in the twentieth-century transnational adoption movement Between 1953 and 2018, approximately 170,000 Korean children were adopted by families in dozens of different countries, with Americans providing homes to more than two-thirds of them. In an iconic photo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Foundation of the Transnational Adoption Movement
- 2. Hero or Villain? The Holts and the Korean Adoption Boom
- 3. Mother of Transracial Adoption
- 4. Helen Doss’s The Family Nobody Wanted
- Conclusion: Christianity, Race, Gender, and Family-Making
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author