Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War
Joo Ok Kim, "Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War "
English | ISBN: 1439920575 | 2022 | 183 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1439920575 | 2022 | 183 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Warring Genealogies examines the elaboration of kinships between Chicano/a and Asian American cultural production, such as the 1954 proxy adoption of a Korean boy by Leavenworth prisoners. Joo Ok Kim considers white supremacist expressions of kinship—in prison magazines, memorials, U.S. military songbooks—as well as critiques of such expressions in Chicana/o and Korean diasporic works to conceptualize racialized formations of kinship emerging from the Korean War.
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