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Britain's 'brown Babies' : The Stories of Children Born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (284 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526154057
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Britain's 'brown Babies'DDC classification:
  • 306.846
LOC classification:
  • HQ777.9 .B536 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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