Britain's 'brown babies' : the stories of children born to black GIs and white women in the Second World War / Lucy Bland.

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This book recounts a little-known history of the estimated 2,000 babies born to black GIs and white British women in the second world war. The African-American press named these children 'brown babies'; the British called them 'half-castes'. Black GIs, in this segregated army, were forbidden to marr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bland, Lucy (Author)
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Black people.
Racially mixed children.
Oral history.
Social history > 20th century.
Black people.
Social history.
1900-1999
Oral histories.
Genre:
Oral histories.
Physical Description:xi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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