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Hurdis, Rebecca Lynne.

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Love's limitations: Imagining and negotiating racial difference in Korean adoptee families.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Love's limitations: Imagining and negotiating racial difference in Korean adoptee families./
Author:	Hurdis, Rebecca Lynne.
Description:	233 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-06, Section: A, page: 2231.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-06A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3410930
ISBN:	9781124031903

Love's limitations: Imagining and negotiating racial difference in Korean adoptee families.
Hurdis, Rebecca Lynne.

Love's limitations: Imagining and negotiating racial difference in Korean adoptee families. - 233 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-06, Section: A, page: 2231.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2009.

From its beginning after the Korean War through the 1980's, it is estimated that over 200,000 Korean children were adopted internationally with over 130,000 adopted to the United States alone. My dissertation, Love's Limitations: Imagining and Negotiating Racial Difference In Korean Adoptee Families, looks at the dynamics of transnational transracial adoption from Korea by focusing on the relationship of adoptive parents and their adopted adult children. My project extends from previous studies, as it re-situates matched parents and their adult children in conversation with each other instead of treating them as separate areas of focus. I begin my dissertation with a set of questions about the ways in which Korean adoptees have been understood in terms of culture, ethnicity and race. How do families reconcile the apparent differences of race and national boundaries that transnational adoption exemplifies? How are racial ideologies shaped and transmitted through family structures? How do these transmissions affect the child's relationship to and positionality within racial formations in the United States, and what are the identities afforded to them both in childhood and as adults? Ultimately, how have White adoptive parents' notions of colorblindness impacted the construction of the Korean adoptee subjectivity?

ISBN: 9781124031903Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

Love's limitations: Imagining and negotiating racial difference in Korean adoptee families.
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