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Summary:
- The Korean War left hundreds of thousands of children in dire circumstances, but the first large-scale transnational adoption efforts involved the children of American soldiers and Korean women. Korean laws and traditions stipulated that citizenship and status passed from father to child, which made the children of US soldiers legally stateless. Korean-black children faced additional hardships because of Korean beliefs about racial purity, and the segregation that structured African American soldiers' lives in the military and throughout US society. The African American families who tried to adopt Korean-black children also faced and challenged discrimination in the child welfare agencies that arranged adoptions. This resource demonstrates how the Cold War and the struggle for civil rights led child welfare agencies to reevaluate African American men and women as suitable adoptive parents.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. African American Soldiers and the Origins of Korean Transnational Adoption
- 2. The National Urban League and the Fight for US Adoption Reform
- 3. African American Families, Korean Black Children, and the Evolution of Transnational Race Rescue
- 4. The New Family Ideal for Korean Black Adoption
- 5. Pearl S. Buck and the Institutional and Rhetorical Reframing of US and Korean Adoption
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.
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Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 pages)
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Digital Characteristics:
- text file
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Call Numbers:
- HV875.64 .G738 2020eb
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ISBNs:
- 1479891274 (electronic bk.)
9781479891276 (electronic bk.)
9781479872329 [Invalid]
1479872326 [Invalid]
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OCLC Numbers:
- 1132420789