Once They Hear My Name: Korean Adoptees and Their Journeys Toward Identity. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Once They Hear My Name: Korean Adoptees and Their Journeys Toward Identity

In their own words, nine Korean adoptees talk about how they became the adults they are today: Americans with new ties to a homeland they never knew while growing up in middle-class American homes. They speak candidly about acceptance and rejection, about life struggles and successes, about experiences unique to each yet connected by common threads. These stories chronicle adoptees' ongoing, and often difficult, quests to discover who they are. Growing up, they initially viewed themselves as typical American kids at home with baseball, pizza, playing with dolls and all other facets of American culture. But often their peers - and sometimes members of their own families - saw them as strangers, good targets for ugly stereotypes. Many of the nine adoptees chronicle their trips as adults back to Korea to find their roots and, in some cases, their birth families. Hearing and learning from these voices may smooth the path for the growing number of families being formed today through international and trans-racial adoption.