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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: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2011]Copyright date: �2011Description: 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781610447065 (e-book).Subject(s): Interracial adoption -- United States | Interracial adoption -- Korea (South) | Intercountry adoption -- United States | Intercountry adoption -- Korea (South) | Adoptees -- United States | Adoptees -- Korea (South) | Korean AmericansGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.874 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

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.

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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