TY  - BOOK
AU  - Graves,Kori A.
TI  - A War Born Family: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War 
SN  - 9781479872329
AV  - HV875.64 
U1  - 362.734089/05960730957 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - African American families
KW  - African American parents
KW  - Intercountry adoption
KW  - Korea (South)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - United States
KW  - Interracial adoption
KW  - Korean War, 1950-1953
KW  - Children
KW  - Racially mixed children
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / Korea
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - African American soldiers
KW  - Cold War civil rights
KW  - Foster Care and Adoption Project
KW  - GI children
KW  - Hines Ward Jr
KW  - International Social Service
KW  - Korean War
KW  - Korean black children
KW  - Korean transnational adoption
KW  - Mixed race children
KW  - National Urban League
KW  - Pearl S. Buck Foundation
KW  - Pearl S. Buck
KW  - Post Exchange
KW  - US domestic adoption
KW  - Welcome House
KW  - World War II
KW  - adoption reform
KW  - black press
KW  - child welfare professionals
KW  - civil rights
KW  - gender and racial oppression
KW  - gender hierarchies
KW  - interracial families
KW  - mixed-race Koreans
KW  - proxy adoption
KW  - social welfare
KW  - transnational adoption
KW  - transracial adoption
N1  - restricted access
N2  - The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black childrenThe Korean War left hundreds of thousands of children in dire circumstances, but the first large-scale transnational adoption efforts involved the children of American soldiers and Korean women. Korean laws and traditions stipulated that citizenship and status passed from father to child, which made the children of US soldiers legally stateless. Korean-black children faced additional hardships because of Korean beliefs about racial purity, and the segregation that structured African American soldiers' lives in the military and throughout US society. The African American families who tried to adopt Korean-black children also faced and challenged discrimination in the child welfare agencies that arranged adoptions.Drawing on extensive research in black newspapers and magazines, interviews with African American soldiers, and case notes about African American adoptive families, A War Born Family demonstrates how the Cold War and the struggle for civil rights led child welfare agencies to reevaluate African American men and women as suitable adoptive parents, advancing the cause of Korean transnational adoption
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