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University commitments to diversity and inclusivity have yet to
translate into support for women of color graduate students.
Sexism, classism, homophobia, racial microaggressions, alienation,
disillusionment, a lack of institutional and departmental support,
limited help from family and partners, imposter syndrome, narrow
reading lists-all remain commonplace. Indifference to the struggles
of women of color in graduate school and widespread dismissal of
their work further poisons an atmosphere that suffocates not only
ambition but a person's quality of life. In Degrees of Difference,
women of color from diverse backgrounds give frank, unapologetic
accounts of their battles-both internal and external-to navigate
grad school and fulfill their ambitions. At the same time, the
authors offer strategies for surviving the grind via stories of
their own hard-won successes with self-care, building supportive
communities, finding like-minded mentors, and resisting racism and
unsupportive faculty and colleagues. Contributors: Aeriel A.
Ashlee, Denise A. Delgado, Nwadiogo I. Ejiogu, Delia Fernandez,
Regina Emily Idoate, Karen J. Leong, Kimberly D. McKee, Delice
Mugabo, Carrie Sampson, Arianna Taboada, Jenny Heijun Wills, and
Soha Youssef
Since the Korean War began, Western families have adopted more than
200,000 Korean children. Two-thirds of these adoptees found homes
in the United States. The majority joined white families and in the
process forged a new kind of transnational and transracial kinship.
Kimberly D. McKee examines the growth of the neocolonial,
multi-million-dollar global industry that shaped these families-a
system she identifies as the transnational adoption industrial
complex. As she shows, an alliance of the South Korean welfare
state, orphanages, adoption agencies, and American immigration laws
powered transnational adoption between the two countries. Adoption
became a tool to supplement an inadequate social safety net for
South Korea's unwed mothers and low-income families. At the same
time, it commodified children, building a market that allowed
Americans to create families at the expense of loving, biological
ties between Koreans. McKee also looks at how Christian
Americanism, South Korean welfare policy, and other facets of
adoption interact with and disrupt American perceptions of nation,
citizenship, belonging, family, and ethnic identity.
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