Adopting for God : the mission to change America through transnational adoption / Soojin Chung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chung, Soojin, author.

Series:

NYU scholarship online.

NYU scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercountry adoption--United States--History.

Intercountry adoption.

Intercountry adoption--East Asia--History.

Interracial adoption--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Interracial adoption.

Interracial adoption--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Explores the role played by missionaries in the twentieth-century transnational adoption movement. Between 1953 and 2018, approximately 170,000 Korean children were adopted by families in dozens of different countries, with Americans providing homes to more than two-thirds of them. In an iconic photo taken in 1955, Harry and Bertha Holt can be seen descending from a Pan American World Airways airplane with twelve Asian babies - eight for their family and four for other families.

Contents:

The Foundation of the Transnational Adoption Movement

Hero or Villain? The Holts and the Korean Adoption Boom

Mother of Transracial Adoption

Helen Doss' The Family Nobody Wanted

Conclusion: Christianity, Race, Gender, and Family-Making.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 7, 2022).

ISBN:

1-4798-0886-5

OCLC:

1281965565