Choosing Ethnicity, Negotiating Race : Korean Adoptees in America / Mia Tuan and Jiannbin Lee Shiao.

By:

Tuan, Mia, 1968- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Shiao, Jiannbin Lee, 1970- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2011]Copyright date: �2011Description: 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781610447065 (e-book)

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Choosing Ethnicity, Negotiating Race : Korean Adoptees in America.DDC classification:

306.874 22

LOC classification:

HV875.64 .T83 2011

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Contents:

Korean adoptees in America -- Historicizing Korean adoption -- Family life and childhood experiences -- Ethnic explorations in early adulthood -- Ethnic explorations in later adulthood -- The ethnic identities of adult adoptees -- Choosing ethnicity, negotiating race.

Summary: Transnational adoption was once a rarity in the United States, but Americans have been choosing to adopt children from abroad with increasing frequency since the mid-twentieth century. Korean adoptees make up the largest share of international adoptions- 25 percent of all children adopted from outside the United States -but they remain understudied among Asian American groups. What kind of identities do adoptees develop as members of American families and in a cultural climate that often views them as foreigners? Inside flap of book jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-203) and index.

Transnational adoption was once a rarity in the United States, but Americans have been choosing to adopt children from abroad with increasing frequency since the mid-twentieth century. Korean adoptees make up the largest share of international adoptions- 25 percent of all children adopted from outside the United States -but they remain understudied among Asian American groups. What kind of identities do adoptees develop as members of American families and in a cultural climate that often views them as foreigners? Inside flap of book jacket.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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