The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War as Korean adoption continued adoptees visibility as Asians faded as they became a geopolitical success storyallAmerican children in loving white families. In Invisible Asians Kim Park Nelson analyzes the processes by which Korean American adoptees have been rendered racially invisible and how that invisibility facilitates their treatment as exceptional subjects within the context of American race relations and in government policies. ampampnbsp Invisible Asians draws on the life stories of more than sixty adult Korean adoptees in three locations Minnesota home to the largest concentration of Korean adoptees in the United States the Pacific Northwest where many of the first Korean adoptees were raised and Seoul home to hundreds of adult adoptees who have returned to South Korea to live and work.