TY - BOOK ID - 78045375 TI - Choosing ethnicity, negotiating race AU - Tuan, Mia AU - Shiao, Jiannbin Lee PY - 2011 SN - 1610447069 9781610447065 0871548755 9780871548757 0871548704 9780871548702 PB - New York Russell Sage Foundation DB - UniCat KW - Korean Americans. KW - Adoptees KW - Intercountry adoption KW - Interracial adoption KW - International adoption KW - Transnational adoption KW - Adoption KW - Korean Americans KW - Ethnology KW - Koreans KW - Adopted persons KW - Adult adoptees KW - Mixed race adoption KW - Trans-racial adoption KW - Race relations KW - Transracial adoption UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78045375 AB - Transnational adoption was once a rarity in the United States, but Americans have been choosing to adopt children from abroad with increasing frequency since the mid-twentieth century. Korean adoptees make up the largest share of international adoptions- 25 percent of all children adopted from outside the United States -but they remain understudied among Asian American groups. What kind of identities do adoptees develop as members of American families and in a cultural climate that often views them as foreigners? ER -