The first Amerasians : mixed race Koreans from camptowns to America / Yuri W. Doolan.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197534427Subject(s): Intercountry adoption -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Intercountry adoption -- Korea (South) -- History -- 20th century | Korean American adoptees | Racially mixed children -- Korea (South) | Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Children | Family and Relationships | Social services & welfare, criminologyAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197534380DDC classification: 362.734089957073 LOC classification: HV875.55 | .D6 2024Online resources: Oxford Academic Summary: 'The First Amerasians' tells the powerful, oftentimes heartbreaking story of how Americans created and used the concept of the Amerasian to remove thousands of mixed race children from their Korean mothers to adoptive US homes during the 1950s and 1960s. In doing so, Yuri W. Doolan reveals how the Amerasian is not simply a mixed race person fathered by a US serviceman in Asia nor a racial term used to describe individuals with one American and one Asian parent like its popular definition suggests. Rather, the Amerasian is a Cold War construct whose rescue has been utilized to repudiate accusations of US imperialism and achieve sentimental victories in the aftermath of wars not quite won by the military.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Also issued in print: 2024.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'The First Amerasians' tells the powerful, oftentimes heartbreaking story of how Americans created and used the concept of the Amerasian to remove thousands of mixed race children from their Korean mothers to adoptive US homes during the 1950s and 1960s. In doing so, Yuri W. Doolan reveals how the Amerasian is not simply a mixed race person fathered by a US serviceman in Asia nor a racial term used to describe individuals with one American and one Asian parent like its popular definition suggests. Rather, the Amerasian is a Cold War construct whose rescue has been utilized to repudiate accusations of US imperialism and achieve sentimental victories in the aftermath of wars not quite won by the military.
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