Kim Park Nelson

Invisible Asians

Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism

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Produktbeschreibung

The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War; as Korean adoption continued, adoptees' visibility as Asians faded as they became a geopolitical success story. Kim Park Nelson analyses the processes by which Korean American adoptees' have been rendered racially invisible, and how that invisibility facilitates their treatment as exceptional subjects within the context of American race relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780813570662
• ISBN-10: 0813570662
• Artikelnr.: 44213641

Autorenporträt

Park Nelson, Kim

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Note on Text
Introduction: A History of Korean American Adoption in Print
1        A Korean American Adoption Ethnography: Method, Theory, and
Experience
2        “Eligible Alien Orphan”: The Cold War Korean Adoptee
3        Adoption Research Discourse and the Rise of Transnational
Adoption, 1974–1987
4        An Adoptee for Every Lake: Multiculturalism, Minnesota, and the
Korean Transracial Adoptee
5        Adoptees as White Koreans: Identity, Racial Visibility, and the
Politics of Passing among Korean American Adoptees
6        Uri Nara, Our Country: Korean American Adoptees in the Global Age
Conclusion: The Ends of Korean Adoption
Notes
Bibliography
Index