Tag: South Korea

  • Mixed-race children face new obstacles Korea Joongang Daily 2012-02-16 Yim Seung-hye Abandonment and abuse put them at disadvantage from the start It was around 5 a.m. on the morning of March 20, 2010, when a woman surnamed Park from Bangbae-dong, southern Seoul, heard a baby crying and ran to her door. On her doorstep was…

  • Intimate encounters, Racial Frontiers: Stateless GI babies in South Korea and the United States, 1953-1965 University of Minnesota June 2010 239 pages Bongsoo Park A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY This dissertation explores…

  • Mixed-race Koreans urge identity rethink The Korea Herald 2011-12-07 Kirsty Taylor Things have come a long way since the 1970s when mixed-race Koreans here were spat upon and beaten up for being different. The kids of that time, whose fathers were often foreign soldiers who first came here during the Korean War, used to find…

  • “A new American comes ‘home’”: Race, nation, and the immigration of Korean War adoptees, “GI babies,” and brides Yale University May 2010 355 pages Publication Number: AAT 3395980 ISBN: 9781109588873 Susie Woo A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Between…

  • Pure mixed blood: The multiple identities of Amerasians in South Korea Indiana University February 2007 256 pages Publication Number: AAT 3253643 Sue-Je Lee Gage, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Ithaca University Submitted to the faculty of the University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of …

  • Into the Arms of America: The Korean Roots of International Adoption The University of Chicago August 2008 248 pages Publication Number: AAT 3322621 ISBN: 9780549742289 Arissa Hyun Jung Oh A Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the division of Social Sciences in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of History This dissertation…

  • Manufacturing citizenship: Metapragmatic framings of language competencies in media images of mixed race men in South Korea Discourse & Society Volume 22, Number 4 (July 2011) pagesw 440-457 DOI: 10.1177/0957926510395834 Adrienne Lo, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Jenna Kim Department of Educational Psychology University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This…

  • The Military Camptown in Retrospect: Multiracial Korean American Subject Formation Along the Black-White Binary Bowling Green State University December 2007 116 pages Perry Dal-nim Miller Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts This thesis applies theoretical approaches from the…

  • Steelers and Ward nominated for Positive Peace Awards Pittsburgh Steelers News 2010-12-06 Celebrate Positive announced today that the Pittsburgh Steelers and wide receiver Hines Ward have been nominated for the inaugural  2010 United Nations NGO Positive Peace Awards in the Professional Sports Team and Professional Athlete categories. This award, viewed as a 21st century peace…

  • Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging Duke University Press November 2010 320 pages 15 photographs, 4 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4683-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4695-1 Eleana J. Kim, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Rochester Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into…