Britain's 'brown Babies' : The Stories of Children Born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (284 pages)
Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- British women meet black GIs -- Keeping the 'brown babies' -- 'Brown babies' relinquished: experiences of children's homes -- Adoption, fostering and attempts to send the babies to the US -- Secrets and lies: searching for mothers and fathers -- After the war and beyond -- Appendix: the case study 'brown babies' -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book recounts a little-known history of an estimated 2,000 children born to black GIs and white British women in world war 11. Stories from over 50 of these children, alongside many photographs, reveal the racism and stigma of growing up in what was then a very white country.
9781526154057
World War, 1939-1945-Black people. Racially mixed children. Oral history. Social history-20th century.