Title Framed by war : Korean children and women at the crossroads of US empire / Susie Woo

Published New York : New York University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (236 pages) Series Nation of nations. Immigrant history as American history ; v. 30 Nation of nations. Immigrant history as American history Contents Introduction: Cold War empire -- PART I. IMAGEINED FAMILY FRAMES -- GIs and the kids of Korea -- US aid campaigns and the Korean Children's Choir -- PART II. INTERNATIONAL COLD WAR FAMILIES -- Missionary rescue and the transnational making of family -- Producing model Korean adoptees -- PART III. ERASING EMPIRE -- Mixed-race children and their Korean mothers -- Managing Korean War brides -- Conclusion: broken family frames -- Adknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author Summary An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war. Yet during and after the Korean War, they were central to the projection of US military, cultural, and political dominance. Framed by War examines how the Korean orphan, GI baby, adoptee, birth mother, prostitute, and bride emerged at the heart of empire. Strained embodiments of war, they brought Americans into Korea and Koreans into America in ways that defined, and at times defied, US empire in the Pacific. What unfolded in Korea set the stage for US postwar power in the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. American destruction and humanitarianism, violence and care played out upon the bodies of Korean children and women. Framed by War traces the arc of intimate relations that served as these foundations. To suture a fragmented past, Susie Woo looks to US and South Korean government documents and military correspondence; US aid organization records; Korean orphanage registers; US and South Korean newspapers and magazines; and photographs, interviews, films, and performances. Integrating history with visual and cultural analysis, Woo chronicles how Americans went from knowing very little about Koreans to making them family, and how Korean children and women who did not choose war found ways to navigate its aftermath in South Korea, the United States, and spaces in between Notes Print version record Subject Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Children -- Social conditions Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Women -- Social conditions Koreans -- United States -- History -- 20th century Koreans -- Cultural assimilation -- United States Orphans -- Korea (South) -- History -- 20th century War brides -- Korea (South) -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies. Social conditions Children Children -- Social conditions Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects Koreans Koreans -- Cultural assimilation Orphans War brides Women -- Social conditions SUBJECT Korea (South) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects Subject Korea (South) United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 147984571X 9781479845712

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