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

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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