Joo Ok Kim | Ages 9-12 Kids' Books | sku-860539027

Joo Ok Kim's Warring Genealogies (sku-860539027) is listed in Ages 9-12 Kids' Books. It examines kinship in Chicano/a and Asian American cultural works through the Korean War, including the 1954 proxy adoption of a Korean boy by Leavenworth prisoners.

Kim studies expressions of white supremacist kinship in prison magazines, memorials, and U.S. military songbooks, alongside critiques in Chicana/o and Korean diasporic works. She reads works by Rolando Hinojosa and Luis Valdez for their counter-representations of the war and their challenges to depictions of the United States as a benevolent savior.

Her discussion of Susan Choi's The Foreign Student considers alternatives to dominant Korean War timelines. The study also covers Chicano military police procedurals, white supremacist women's organizations, funding for Korean War archives, and the Cold War idea of a “national family,” drawing on Asian American and Latinx Studies to examine race, politics, and citizenship.