Kimberly D Mckee

Biographic Data

ID4064257
NAMEKimberly D Mckee
GIVEN NAMESKimberly D
FAMILY NAMEMckee
SIGNATUREMCKEE K D
AFFILIATIONSGrand Valley State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Understanding Adoption as a Reproductive Justice Issue

    Open AccessJade H Wexler, Jieyi Cai et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Women Quarterly2023Cited by: 6References: 9

    Adoption is frequently invoked as a universal social good—an uncomplicated win for adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents alike—that obviates the need for abortion. As antiabortionists weaponize adoption to attack reproductive rights, psychologists must recognize adoption as a key reproductive justice issue with significant, lifelong physical and psychological impacts, especially on adopted people and birth parents. Recognizing critical ad…

  • Return to Seoul (2022)

    Kimberly D MckeeARTICLEAsian Ethnicity2023References: 9

    This film review explores Return to Seoul’s portrayal of a French-Korean adopted person’s negotiation with visiting and living in South Korea, as well as the inclusion of a birth search and reunion narrative

  • More Than an Outcome of War

    Kimberly D MckeeARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies2022

    8 More Than an Outcome of WarAdoptions from Asia to the United States Kimberly D. McKee (bio) When adoptions from Asia to the United States began in earnest in the mid twentieth century, it's doubtful that the primarily white adoptive parents caring for children from Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea saw themselves or their children as part of a broader immigration movement or as part of the growing Asian American population in the United States.…

  • Public Intimacy and Kinship in the Korean Adoption Community

    Kimberly D MckeeARTICLEWomen Gender and Families of Color2020References: 10

    Korean children represent the largest group of international, transracial adoptees in the United States, and the majority of these children enter white families. Since the 1980s, adoptive families and children have become engaged with one another through culture (or heritage) camps, local and national adoption organizations, adoption agency postadoption services, adoption list-serves, and adoption-related Facebook groups. The emergence of an adul…

  • Disrupting Kinship

    Open AccessKimberly D MckeeBOOKDisrupting Kinship2019

    Interacting with Cold War ideology, individuals’ Christian Americanism supported the notion that Korean adoptees would enter “good homes” in a democratic society. Many children felt the brunt of this rhetoric as they were told adoption was in their “best interests” and that if not adoption, they would have fallen through the cracks of economic poverty and degradation in the land of their birth. In doing so, rhetorics of gratitude became cemented …

  • Disrupting Kinship

    Kimberly D MckeeBOOKDisrupting Kinship2019

  • Mentoring with

    Denise Goerisch, Jae Basiliere et al.ARTICLEGender Place & Culture2019Cited by: 10References: 6

    Traditional, formal mentoring structures established within the space of the university can be rooted in patriarchal systems of power, hierarchy, and exclusion that perpetuate neoliberal and capitalist understandings of individualism and exceptionalism. This model privileges certain forms of knowledge and expertise, often that of senior, tenured faculty rather than those who are ignored or overlooked as ‘experts’ such as historically underreprese…

  • The Consumption of Adoption and Adoptees in American Middlebrow Culture

    Kimberly Mckee, Kimberly D MckeeARTICLEBiography2019

    The Consumption of Adoption and Adoptees in American Middlebrow Culture Kimberly McKee (bio) Fraudulent practices are intertwined with modern adoption. From its early beginnings, and the rise of black market and gray market adoptions (Winslow), to coercive unethical practices to encourage birth mothers to relinquish their children (Siegal; Joyce), adoption cannot be understood simply as a benevolent practice of family formation. Modern adoption i…

  • Bilingual Brokers

    Kimberly Mckee, Kimberly D MckeeARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies2018

    Reviewed by: Bilingual Brokers: Race, Literature, and Language as Human Capital by Jeehyun Lim Kimberly McKee (bio) Bilingual Brokers: Race, Literature, and Language as Human Capital, by Jeehyun Lim. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. 270 pp. $25.00 paper. ISBN: 978–0–8232–7531–1. American anxieties concerning the English language and non-English-speaking individuals in the United States are central to how everyday Americans understand Eng…