From Orphan to Adoptee - U.s. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption

Klappentext SooJin Pate is visiting assistant professor at Macalester College, where she teaches critical race theory, immigration, and postcolonial approaches to the study of U.S. history and culture. Zusammenfassung SooJin Pate explores the ways Korean children were employed by the U.S. nation-state to promote the myth of American exceptionalism! to expand U.S. empire during the Cold War! and to solidify notions of the American family. In From Orphan to Adoptee we see how Korean adoption became the crucible in which technologies of the U.S. empire were invented and honed.

Product details

• Authors: Shoojin Pate, SooJin Pate
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2014
• EAN: 9780816683055
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-8305-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Difference Incorporated; Difference Incorporated
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research