... internationalism evangelical Christians Holt Bertha Holt Harry Holt family identity neo evangelical Christianity philosophy adoption religious matching adoption philosophy social commitment evangelical Christian social workers secular transnational adoption United States U S colonialism divine...

... evangelist Harry Holt and internationalist Pearl Buck connected constituencies back home to Korean children, imbuing Americans with a perceived First World responsibility over Third World children. The mobilization of Americans interested in seeing these adoptions through pressured the US and South Korean...

... government worked closely with Harry Holt and in 1954 established Korea’s first welfare agency, Child Placement Service, expressly to remove mixed-race children. The chapter describes how US racial identification practices used to determine which children were “part-black” were introduced to and became...

... Edward Robison Howard Steiger William Williams Harrison O’Rourke Lawrence Reston James Tiede Tom Harry Holt Friends Meeting for the Sufferings of Vietnamese Children South Vietnamese Ministry for Social Welfare GI Babies Orphan Visa Petition Committee of Responsibility Children’s Medical...