Books by splitShops
The First Amerasians: Mixed Race Koreans from Camptowns to America - Paperback
The First Amerasians: Mixed Race Koreans from Camptowns to America - Paperback
Impossible de charger la disponibilité du service de retrait
by Yuri W. Doolan (Author)
During the 1950s, thousands of mixed race children were born to US servicemen and local Korean women in US-occupied South Korea. Assumed to be the progeny of camptown women--or military prostitutes--their presence created a major problem for the image of US democracy in the world at a time when the nation was vying for Cold War allegiances abroad. As mixed race children became a discernible population around US military encampments in South Korea, communists seized upon the image of those left behind by their GI fathers as evidence of US imperialism, irresponsibility, and immorality in the Third World. Aware of this and keen to redeem the image of America's intervention in Asia, US citizens spearheading the postwar recovery of recently war-torn South Korea embarked upon a campaign in US Congress to bring as many of these children home. By the early 1960s, American philanthropists, missionaries, and voluntary agencies had succeeded in constructing the figure of the abandoned and mistreated Amerasian orphan to lobby US Congress for the quick passage of intercountry adoption laws. They also gained the sympathies of American families, eager to welcome these racially different children into the intimate confines of their homes. Although the adoptions of Korean "Amerasian" children helped to promote an image of humanitarian rescue and Cold War racial liberalism in 1950s and 1960s America, there was one other problem: many of these children were not actually orphans, but had been living with their Korean mothers in the camptown communities surrounding US military bases prior to adoption. Their placements into American families relied upon dehumanizing constructions of these women as hardened prostitutes who did not even love their own children, South Korea as a backwards, racist society bent-up on Confucian tradition and pure bloodlines, and the United States as a welcoming home in an era of intense racial segregation.
The First Amerasians tells the powerful, oftentimes heartbreaking story of how Americans created and used the concept of the Amerasian to remove thousands of mixed race children from their Korean mothers to adoptive US homes during the 1950s and 1960s. In doing so, Yuri W. Doolan reveals how the Amerasian is not simply a mixed race person fathered by a US serviceman in Asia nor a racial term used to describe individuals with one American and one Asian parent like its popular definition suggests. Rather, the Amerasian is a Cold War construct whose rescue has been utilized to repudiate accusations of US imperialism and achieve sentimental victories in the aftermath of wars not quite won by the military. From such constructions, Americans lobbied Congress twice: first, in the 1950s to establish international adoption laws that would lead to the placement of hundreds of thousands of Korean children in the United States, then, later in the 1980s, when the plight of mixed race Koreans would be invoked again to argue for Amerasian immigration laws culminating in the migrations of tens of thousands of mixed race Vietnamese and their relatives. Beyond Cold War historiography, this book also shows how in using the figure of the mistreated and abandoned Amerasian in need of rescue, Americans caused harm to actual people--mixed race Koreans and their mothers specifically--as children were placed into adoptive homes during an era where few regulations or safeguards existed to protect them from abuse, negligence, or racial hostilities in the US and many Korean mothers were coerced, both physically and monetarily, to relinquish their children to American authorities.Author Biography
Yuri Doolan is Assistant Professor of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the inaugural chair of Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies at Brandeis University.
Expédition
Expédition
📦 Shipping Information
Q. Which countries do you ship to?
We ship worldwide to the following 47 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States (55 of 62 states), and Vietnam.
Q. How much is shipping, and how long does it take?
All of our products are shipped from Korea to the rest of the world, so a global shipping fee applies to every order. Shipping costs and delivery times vary depending on your country.
To see exactly how much shipping costs and how long it takes to reach your country, just click Calculate and see the shipping cost below the Add to Cart button.
Q. When will my subscription box ship?
Our subscription and curated boxes (Daebak Box, Daebak K-Beauty Box, SnackFever, and Collab Box) ship right after a 2–3 business day processing period from the time your order is placed.
Q. How do recurring subscriptions work?
For recurring subscriptions, your next order is automatically created exactly 3 months after your original order date. Once that order is generated, it ships after the same 2–3 business day processing period.
Q. ⚠️ Important: Can I order products from different brands together?
Please order items from the same brand together, and avoid mixing different brands in a single order.
Each Korean brand we carry uses its own shipping carrier, so combining products from different brands in one order may result in higher shipping costs. For example, Brand A may ship via FedEx while Brand B ships via Korea Post, meaning a mixed order is handled as separate shipments.
To keep your shipping costs as low as possible, we recommend placing a separate order for each brand.
Returns & Refunds
Returns & Refunds
Retours
Nous avons une politique de retour de 30 jours, ce qui signifie que vous avez 30 jours après réception de votre article pour demander un retour.
Pour être admissible à un retour, votre article doit être dans le même état que celui dans lequel vous l’avez reçu – non porté ou non utilisé, avec les étiquettes, et dans son emballage d’origine. Vous aurez également besoin du reçu ou de la preuve d’achat.
Les articles qui nous sont renvoyés sans demande de retour préalable ne seront pas acceptés.
Comment effectuer un retour
Pour effectuer un retour, veuillez nous contacter à hello@daebak.co
Si votre retour est accepté, nous vous fournirons des instructions d’expédition de retour, y compris l’adresse où envoyer votre colis.
Les frais d’expédition de retour sont à la charge du client, sauf si l’article est défectueux, endommagé ou incorrect.
Dommages et problèmes
Veuillez inspecter votre commande dès réception et nous contacter immédiatement si l’article est défectueux, endommagé ou si vous recevez le mauvais article, afin que nous puissions évaluer le problème et y remédier.
Exceptions / articles non retournables
Pour des raisons d’hygiène et de sécurité, les produits de soins personnels, y compris les produits de beauté et de soins de la peau, ne peuvent être retournés une fois ouverts ou utilisés.
Pour les produits sélectionnés ou de type mystère, y compris les Daebak Beauty Boxes, les retours ne sont acceptés que si la boîte entière est non ouverte et que tous les articles sont inutilisés, scellés et dans leur emballage d’origine.
Les articles suivants ne sont également pas retournables:
- Produits personnalisés (tels que les commandes spéciales ou les articles personnalisés)
- Produits périssables (tels que la nourriture, les fleurs ou les plantes)
- Matières dangereuses, liquides inflammables ou gaz
- Articles en solde
Si vous n’êtes pas sûr que votre article soit admissible à un retour, veuillez nous contacter à hello@daebak.co avant d’initier un retour.
Échanges
Le moyen le plus rapide de vous assurer d’obtenir ce que vous voulez est de retourner l’article que vous avez, et une fois le retour accepté, d’effectuer un achat séparé pour le nouvel article.
Délai de rétractation de 14 jours de l’Union Européenne
Nonobstant ce qui précède, si la marchandise est expédiée vers l’Union Européenne, vous avez le droit d’annuler ou de retourner votre commande dans les 14 jours, pour quelque raison que ce soit et sans justification. Comme ci-dessus, votre article doit être dans le même état que celui dans lequel vous l’avez reçu, non porté ou non utilisé, avec les étiquettes, et dans son emballage d’origine. Vous aurez également besoin du reçu ou de la preuve d’achat.
Remboursements
Nous vous informerons une fois que nous aurons reçu et inspecté votre retour, et vous ferons savoir si le remboursement a été approuvé ou non. S’il est approuvé, vous serez automatiquement remboursé sur votre mode de paiement original dans les 10 jours ouvrables. Veuillez noter qu’il peut falloir un certain temps à votre banque ou à votre compagnie de carte de crédit pour traiter et enregistrer le remboursement.
Si plus de 15 jours ouvrables se sont écoulés depuis que nous avons approuvé votre retour, veuillez nous contacter à hello@daebak.co
