ISBN:
9780813570679
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (248 p)
Series Statement:
Asian American Studies Today
Parallel Title:
Print version Park Nelson, Kim Invisible Asians : Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism
DDC:
305.8957073
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In Invisible Asians, Kim Park Nelson analyzes the processes by which Korean American adoptees have been rendered racially invisible, and how that invisibility facilitates their treatment as exceptional subjects within the context of American race relations and in government policies, including immigration law. Park Nelson connects this invisibility to the ambiguous racial positioning of Asian Americans in American culture, and explores the implications of invisibility for Korean adoptees as they navigate race, culture, and nationality
Abstract:
Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Text -- Introduction. A History of Korean American Adoption in Print -- Chapter 1. A Korean American Adoption Ethnography. Method, Theory, and Experience -- Chapter 2. "Eligible Alien Orphan". The Cold War Korean Adoptee -- Chapter 3. Adoption Research Discourse and the Rise of Transnational Ad -- Chapter 4. An Adoptee for Every Lake. Multiculturalism, Minnesota, and the Korean Transracial Adoptee
Abstract:
Chapter 5. Adoptees as White Koreans. Identity, Racial Visibility, and the Politics of Passing among Korean American Adoptees -- Chapter 6. Uri Nara, Our Country. Korean American Adoptees in the Global Age -- Conclusion. The Ends of Korean Adoption -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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