scholarly journals Korean Adoptee Identity: Adoptive and Ethnic Identity Profiles of Adopted Korean Americans

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (150) ◽  
pp. 47-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam J. Beaupre ◽  
Reed Reichwald ◽  
Xiang Zhou ◽  
Elizabeth Raleigh ◽  
Richard M. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Korean Americans ◽  
Korean Adoptee Identity ◽  
Korean Adoptee

Race, Ethnic Options, and Ethnic Binds: Identity Negotiations of Second-Generation Chinese and Korean Americans

2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazli Kibria
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Korean Americans ◽  
Identity Negotiations ◽  
Racial Categorization ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Encounters ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article examines the dynamics of race and ethnic options for those racially labeled “Asian” in U.S. society. Drawing on sixty-four in-depth interviews with second-generation Chinese and Korean Americans, I look at how Asian racial categorization and its dynamics shape informal, everyday social encounters between Asians and non-Asians. These dynamics suggest an ethnic bind — a sense of uncertainty and conflict about the meaning and significance of ethnic identity and practice, stemming from the multiple and contradictory pressures surrounding it. The second-generation Chinese and Korean Americans experienced pressures both to cultivate their Chinese and Korean membership and to downplay or minimize it. For those labeled “Asian,” the ethnic bind is part of the social terrain on which ethnic identity is produced, with ethnic options emerging out of the contests and negotiations surrounding them.

Early Socialization Experiences and Variations of Korean Adoptee Identity

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica J. Marshik ◽  
Shavern Browne ◽  
Soo Whan Choi ◽  
Joanna Maung ◽  
Matthew Anderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Korean Adoptee Identity ◽  
Korean Adoptee ◽  
Early Socialization
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