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Julia Chinyere Oparah
is a diasporic Igbo woman and member of the Umochoke clan, Owerri, Nigeria. She
was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1967 and grew up in a multiracial adoptive
family in the south of England. She is a professor of Ethnic Studies at Mills
College, a women�s liberal arts college in Oakland, California, author of Other
Kinds of Dreams: Black Women�s Organisations and the Politics of Transformation
(Routledge 1998) and editor of Global Lockdown: Race, Gender and the
Prison-Industrial Complex (Routledge 2005). Oparah is involved in the prison
abolitionist, anti-violence and global justice movements and is a co-founder of
Sankofa, a support group for transracial adoptees in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sun Yung Shin
was born in Seoul in 1974, 21 years after the Korean War Armistice. According to
the Holt Agency, she was abandoned at the Shinkyo Police Station. She lived at
an orphanage and then a foster home before being adopted in 1975 by a white
American couple that had already adopted a white American male newborn. In 1978
she became a naturalized U.S. citizen and her name and photograph were featured
in a high school social studies textbook under "Immigration". She is the author
of Skirt Full of Black, a book of poems, and Cooper's Lesson, an
illustrated children's book in Korean and English. Shin has returned to Korea
twice. Currently she lives in Minneapolis where she teaches literature and
writing.
More about Sun Yung Shin at
www.sunyungshin.com
Jane Jeong Trenka
was born in Seoul 19 years after the "end" of the Korean War, in the American
military district of Yongsan. Because of her father's alcoholism, compounded by
a lack of adequate social services in Korea, she and one older sister were sent
via Lutheran Social Services to a childless white couple in rural Minnesota in
1972. In 1995, Trenka returned to Korea and was reunited with her family. She
didn't have to search; her Korean mother found her. Trenka is the author of
The Language of Blood: A Memoir. She currently lives in the Korean
countryside, where she is relearning her first mother tongue.
More about
Jane Jeong Trenka at
www.languageofblood.com
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