Suchergebnisse

Writing in the Years of Great Hatred -- The Multiple Origins of Asian American Histories -- 2020 : The Health of the Nation -- 1975 : Trauma and Transformation -- 1968 : What's in the Name "Asian American"? -- 1965 : The Many Faces of Post-1965 Asian America -- 1965 Reprise : The Faces Behind the Food -- 1953 : Mixed Race Lives -- 1941 and 1942 : The Days That You Remember -- 1919 : Declaration of Independence -- 1875 : Homage -- 1869 : These Wounds.

In the last fifty years, transnational adoption-specifically, the adoption of Asian children-has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian international adoption to flourish. In Global Families , Catherine Ceniza Choy unearths the little-known historical origins of Asian international adoption in the United States. Beginning with the post-World War II presence of the U.S. military in Asia, she reveals how mixed-race children born of Japanese, Ko

AbstractIn the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, international and transracial adoption have become more prominent than ever before. Celebrity culture and mainstream television and film—for example, Angelina Jolie's adoption of a Cambodian boy, an Ethiopian girl, and most recently a Vietnamese boy, and the adoption of a Chinese baby girl by Kristin Davis's character Charlotte York at the conclusion of the iconic HBO sitcom "Sex and the City"—have reflected as well as disseminated new racial sensibilities regarding family formation to the general public. But these sensibilities are not as new as they seem. They have a history. This essay challenges the popular notion that international adoption is an unprecedented facet of current American multiculturalism by connecting it to the international adoption by families in the United States during the Cold War 1950s and 1960s of mixed-race children of Asian women and U.S. servicemen. While histories of adoption have located the origins of Asian international adoption in the post–World War II and post–Korean War periods,2 the original contribution of this essay is to emphasize and to critically explore how the analytical category of race is fundamental to understanding the demographics, discourses, and institutions of earlier Asian international adoption history.

Preliminary Material -- Gendering the Trans-Pacific World /Catherine Ceniza Choy and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu -- Notes on Trans-Pacific Archives /Denise Cruz -- The Many Labors of the Gendered Trans-Pacific World /Karen J. Leong -- Rethinking the Sexual Geography of American Empire in the Philippines /Tessa Ong Winkelmann -- A Fascist Triangle or a Rotary Wheel /Erika Huckestein and Mark L. Reeves -- Moving within Empires /Ji-Yeon Yuh -- Re-Franchising Women of Hawaiʻi, 1912–1920 /Rumi Yasutake -- Currencies of u.s. Empire in Hawaiʻi's Tourism and Prison Industries /Liza Keānuenueokalani Williams -- The Sexualized Child and Mestizaje /Gladys Nubla -- "Ashamed of Certain Japanese" /Chrissy Yee Lau -- Gendered Adoptee Identities /Kimberly McKee -- Up in the Air /Miliann Kang -- Pageant Politics /Genevieve Clutario -- "Golden Lilies" across the Pacific /He Fang -- Traces of Empires in Breast Cancer in South Korea and the Trans-Pacific /Laura C. Nelson -- Graphical and Ethical Spectatorship /Stella Oh -- Performing between Two Empires /Nobue Suzuki -- A Careful Embrace /Shawn Schwaller -- We Are Pacific Men /Craig Santos Perez -- Gendering the K-Vampire /Hyungji Park -- Through a Trans-Vietnamese Feminist Lens /Lan Duong -- Index.