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Choosing ethnicity, negotiating race : Korean adoptees in America /
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 outsi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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? |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 213 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-203) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781610447065 1610447069 |