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Consumer Health > ConsHlth: Adoption

The First Amerasians: Mixed Race Koreans from Camptowns to America
Doolan, Yuri W.

ISBN 13:

9780197534397

ISBN 10:

0197534392

Category:

ConsHlth: Adoption

Edition:

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

2024

Format:

Paperback

Status:

Out of Stock at the Publisher

Imprint:

Oxford University Press

Affiliation:

Brandeis University

Audience:

Professional and scholarly

Dimensions:

5.9 x 0.7 x 8.9 in

Pages:

264

Weight:

Retail Price:

27.99

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Synopsis:
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 in US-occupied South Korea to adoptive American homes during the 1950s and 1960s. It explores the Cold War ideologies undergirding this so-called rescue and shows how the process of child removal and placement via US refugee and adoption laws profoundly shaped the lives of mixed race Koreans and their mothers.