Choosing Ethnicity, Negotiating Race : Korean Adoptees in America / Mia Tuan and Jiannbin Lee Shiao.
2011
HV875.64 .T83 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Choosing Ethnicity, Negotiating Race : Korean Adoptees in America / Mia Tuan and Jiannbin Lee Shiao.
Author
Tuan, Mia, 1968-
ISBN
9780871548757 (alk. paper)
0871548755 (alk. paper)
0871548755 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2011.
Language
English
Description
x, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HV875.64 .T83 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.874
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Shiao, Jiannbin Lee, 1970-
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Table of 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.
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.