A War Born Family : : African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War / / Kori A. Graves.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Graves, Kori A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. African American Soldiers and the Origins of Korean Transnational Adoption --; 2. The National Urban League and the Fight for US Adoption Reform --; 3. African American Families, Korean Black Children, and the Evolution of Transnational Race Rescue --; 4. The New Family Ideal for Korean Black Adoption --; 5. Pearl S. Buck and the Institutional and Rhetorical Reframing of US and Korean Adoption --; Conclusion --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781479891276; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704730; 9783110704525; 9783110722703
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479872329.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kori A. Graves.

The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black childrenThe Korean War left hundreds of thousands of children in dire circumstances, but the first large-scale transnational adoption efforts involved the children of American soldiers and Korean women. Korean laws and traditions stipulated that citizenship and status passed from father to child, which made the children of US soldiers legally stateless. Korean-black children faced additional hardships because of Korean beliefs about racial purity, and the segregation that structured African American soldiers’ lives in the military and throughout US society. The African American families who tried to adopt Korean-black children also faced and challenged discrimination in the child welfare agencies that arranged adoptions.Drawing on extensive research in black newspapers and magazines, interviews with African American soldiers, and case notes about African American adoptive families, A War Born Family demonstrates how the Cold War and the struggle for civil rights led child welfare agencies to reevaluate African American men and women as suitable adoptive parents, advancing the cause of Korean transnational adoption.