This resource list is based off a list that Patrick made and KJ added to. Hopefully it helps, and maybe it doesn’t, but here’s a place to start to find stories that celebrate, center, amplify and/or support Asian/Korean/Adopted Americans people.
Watch
(Documentaries)
(TEDxTalks)
Listen
(Music)
Read
(Non-Fiction)
- Racial Melancholia: Racial Disassociation by David L. Eng
- I Wish For You a Beautiful Life by Sara Dorow
- Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging by Eleana J. Kim
- Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism by Kim Park Parknelson
- Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller
- To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption Attached the Book by Arissa H. Oh
- Disrupting Kinship: The Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States by Kimberly D. McKee
- The “Unknown” Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now by Janine Myung Ja
- The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
- Korean Culture Dictionary by Woosung Kang
- Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community by Liz Kleinrock
(Memoirs)
- All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
- Faith and Favor: Discovering Family at Fifty by Li Quaites
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
(Articles)
- Richard M. Lee and Andrea Bora Yun: Comparing the Ethnic Identity and Well-Being of Adopted Korean Americans with Immigrant/U.S.-Born Korean Americans and Korean International Students
- Youngeun Koo (University of Tübingen): ‘We Deserve to Be Here’: The Development of Adoption Critiques by Transnational Korean Adoptees in Denmark
- Alison Yoo-Jung-Kim Dickinson (University of Northern Iowa): Determining and addressing the needs of tr essing the needs of transracial Korean adoptees in higher education
- Nayoung Heo (Minnesota State University – Mankato): Racial, Ethnic, and Class Identities of Korean Adoptees in Minnesota and the Factors for Their Decision to Pursue Post-Baccalaureate Education
(Fiction)
- Inconvenient Daughter by Lauren Sharkey
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
- Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
- Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi
- Heart & Seoul by Jen Frederick