Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism

by Kim Park Nelson

Book Overview

The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War; as Korean adoption continued, adoptees' visibility as Asians faded as they became a geopolitical success story--all-American children in loving white families. In Invisible Asians, Kim Park Nelson analyzes the processes by which Korean American adoptees' have been rendered racially invisible, and how that invisibility facilitates their treatment as exceptional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813570662
• ISBN13: 9780813570662
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary