First Amerasians - Mixed Race Koreans From Camptowns to America

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.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Note on Language


• Prologue


• Introduction: The First Amerasians


• Chapter 1: Managing Cold War Intimacy


• Chapter 2: "The Problem of the Mixed Blood Child"


• Chapter 3: "Confucius' Outcasts"


• Chapter 4: Becoming American


• Chapter 5: The Second Rescue


• Epilogue: Beyond Amerasian


• Appendix


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Yuri Doolan is Assistant Professor of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the inaugural chair of Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies at Brandeis University.

Product details

• Authors: Yuri W Doolan, Yuri W. Doolan, Yuri W. (Assistant Professor of History an Doolan, Yuri W. (Assistant Professor of History and Women's Doolan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.04.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9780197534380
• ISBN: 978-0-19-753438-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Oral History, HISTORY / Asia / General, Military history: post WW2 conflicts, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, Adoption & fostering, Asian History, History of the Americas, Modern warfare, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, The Cold War, Adoption and fostering, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General