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Odd Hospitality: Race, Kinship, and Rhetorics of Transnational Adoption

Description:

Transnational adoption from Asia to the U.S. was institutionalized in the 1950s, when the Korean War left an estimated 100,000 Korean children orphaned or displaced. At the time, the practice was situated as a form of emergency rescue, an act of win-win humanitarianism in which average Americans could take part...

Keyword:

adoption, postracialism, race, Asian American, transnational adoption, and international adoption

Subject:

Asian American studies and Communication

Creator:

Idzik, Sarah Hae-In

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

08/23/2023

Date Created:

2023-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_1011071 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16708
The First Amerasians: Mixed Race Koreans from Camptowns to America

Description:

This dissertation traces the rise and the demise of the Amerasian in the years roughly set by the Amerasian Immigration Act (1950-1982). I argue that an Amerasian is not simply an individual fathered by a US servicemen in Asia, nor is it just a racial descriptor used to term mixed...

Keyword:

adoption, camptowns, mixed race, Cold War, Korean, and Amerasian

Subject:

American history, Asian American studies, and Gender studies

Creator:

Doolan, Yuri

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/12/2020

Date Created:

2019-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14668 and etdadmin_upload_662912

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