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. Kim Park Nelson analyses the processes by which Korean American adoptees' have been rendered racially invisible, and how that invisibility facilitates their treatment as exceptional subjects within the context of American race relations.

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Introduction: A History of Korean American Adoption in Print

1        A Korean American Adoption Ethnography: Method, Theory, and Experience

2        “Eligible Alien Orphan”: The Cold War Korean Adoptee

3        Adoption Research Discourse and the Rise of Transnational Adoption, 1974–1987

4        An Adoptee for Every Lake: Multiculturalism, Minnesota, and the Korean Transracial Adoptee

5        Adoptees as White Koreans: Identity, Racial Visibility, and the Politics of Passing among Korean American Adoptees

6        Uri Nara, Our Country: Korean American Adoptees in the Global Age

Conclusion: The Ends of Korean Adoption

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