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. (Assistant Professor of History an Doolan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.2024
• EAN: 9780197534397
• ISBN: 978-0-19-753439-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Oral History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, Adoption & fostering, Asian History, History of the Americas, The Cold War, Relating to Asian American people, Adoption and fostering, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General