Shedding Light on the Stateless - Adoption of Korean Black Children in the 1950s and 60s - A War Born Family by Kori Graves

Season 6 Episode 4

We cover the book A WAR BORN FAMILY: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War by Kori A. Graves

Dr. Graves explores the unique issues surrounding the adoption of Korean Black mixed race children during 1950s-60s from Korea to African American adoptive parents in pre-Civil Rights Era United States.

We also take a brief look at the story of Milton Washington. Check out the links below!

LINKS:

• Dr Kori A Graves Biography [Rutgers]

• A War Born Family - [NYU Press]

• World’s Largest ‘Baby Exporter’ Confronts Its Painful Past [New York Times]

• Jim Crow Laws [History. Com]

• Occupational Segregation in America [Center for American Progress]

• Black, Korean and searching for the American dream [BBC]

• Lives Less Ordinary -Black, Korean, stateless: A Slickyboy’s American dream, part 1 [BBC] 

• Lives Less Ordinary - Black, Korean, stateless: a Slickyboy’s American dream, part 2 [BBC]

• Adapted Podcast - podcast about Korean adoptees

• The Janchi Show: Your New Favorite Korean Adoptee Podcast 

• Kori Graves on Black Korean Adoptees - [Time To Say Goodbye Podcast]