The first Amerasians

• Verfasst von: Doolan, Yuri W. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The first Amerasians
• Titelzusatz: mixed race Koreans from camptowns to America
• Verf.angabe: Yuri W. Doolan
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: 1 online resource
• Illustrationen: illustrations.
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: Also issued in print: 2024. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 11, 2024)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-753442-7
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197534380.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Family and Relationships
• Sach-SW: Social services & welfare, criminology
• K10plus-PPN: 1887102817
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

'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 to adoptive US homes during the 1950s and 1960s. In doing so, Yuri W. Doolan reveals how the Amerasian is not simply a mixed race person fathered by a US serviceman in Asia nor a racial term used to describe individuals with one American and one Asian parent like its popular definition suggests. Rather, the Amerasian is a Cold War construct whose rescue has been utilized to repudiate accusations of US imperialism and achieve sentimental victories in the aftermath of wars not quite won by the military.