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Invisible Asians] invites readers to experience the fascinating stories of Koran adoptees and their earnest search for racial and national identity." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
"In this accessible and original work, Kim Park Nelson explores the complexity of historical and contemporary Korean American adoptee identity and experience." -- Catherine Ceniza Choy * author of Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America *
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Invisible Asians brilliantly explores how adoptees from Asia have transformed our understandings of race in relation to the Asian (American) diaspora. Park Nelson's fascinating research enables her to take on key questions of representation, economics, and U.S. imperialism." -- Laura Briggs * author of Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption *
"A timely and insightful critical examination of race, adoption, nationality, and belonging in Asian America....a well-crafted and engaging book that advances scholarship on race and adoption as it relates to Asian America." * Journal of Asian American Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TextIntroduction: A History of Korean American Adoption in Print1 A Korean American Adoption Ethnography: Method, Theory, and Experience2 “Eligible Alien Orphan”: The Cold War Korean Adoptee3 Adoption Research Discourse and the Rise of Transnational Adoption, 1974–19874 An Adoptee for Every Lake: Multiculturalism, Minnesota, and the Korean Transracial Adoptee5 Adoptees as White Koreans: Identity, Racial Visibility, and the Politics of Passing among Korean American Adoptees6
Uri Nara, Our Country: Korean American Adoptees in the Global AgeConclusion: The Ends of Korean AdoptionNotesBibliographyIndex
