BEYOND HONORARY WHITENESS: IDEOLOGIES OF BELONGING AND KOREAN ADOPTEE IDENTITIES

dc.contributor.advisorRay, Rashawnen_US
dc.contributor.authorLaybourn, Wendy Marieen_US
dc.contributor.departmentSociologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-17T06:08:40Z
dc.date.available2018-07-17T06:08:40Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.description.abstractUsing Asian Critical Race Theory as a framework, this dissertation examines how Korean adoption contributed to constructions of race – racial meanings and a racial order – and the effects on Korean adoptees’ identity development. This dissertation asks the following questions: What role has Korean adoption played in the U.S. racial formation? What role do various levels of social structure (e.g., media, interpersonal interactions) play in adoptees’ understanding of their belonging, both as it relates to the U.S. and Korea, and how do adoptees resolve any competing messages about their social and national citizenship? And, how do Korean adoptees make-meaning of their adoptee identity? In order to answer these questions, I draw upon three original data sources: 18 months of participant observation, an online survey (N=107), and in-depth interviews (N=37) with Korean adoptee adults.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2Q52FG85
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/20945
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSociologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSocial psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAsian American studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledethnicityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledidentityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledraceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtransnational adoptionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtransracial adoptionen_US
dc.titleBEYOND HONORARY WHITENESS: IDEOLOGIES OF BELONGING AND KOREAN ADOPTEE IDENTITIESen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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