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Summary:

Since the 1950s, more than 100,000 Korean children have been adopted by predominantly white Americans; they were orphans of the Korean War, or so the story went. But begin the story earlier, as SooJin Pate does, and what has long been viewed as humanitarian rescue reveals itself as an exercise in expanding American empire during the Cold War.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Militarized Humanitarianism: Rethinking the Emergence of Korean Adoption
• 2. Gender and the Militaristic Gaze
• 3. Marketing the Social Orphan
• 4. Normalizing the Adopted Child
• 5. "I Wanted My Head to Be Removed": The Limits of Normativity.

Author/Creator:

Pate, SooJin

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

From orphan to adoptee: U.S. empire and genealogies of Korean adoption [by Pate, S.]

Related Series:

Difference incorporated

Subjects:

Intercountry adoption — Korea (South)

Intercountry adoption — United States

Interracial adoption — United States

Orphans — Korea (South)

Adopted children — United States

Korean American children — Cultural assimilation

General Notes:

Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HV875.58.K6 P38 2014eb

ISBNs:

9781452941028 (electronic bk.)
1452941025 (electronic bk.)
9780816683055 [Invalid]
0816683050 [Invalid]
9780816683079 [Invalid]
0816683077 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 40023526079

OCLC Numbers:

881183710

Other Control Numbers:

EBC1701707 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11841309