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Autore |
Bland Lucy |
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Titolo |
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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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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ISBN |
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1-5261-3327-X |
1-5261-5405-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 271 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social history |
Racially mixed children |
Oral history |
Social history - 20th century |
World War, 1939-1945 - Black people |
Oral histories. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-266) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 British women meet black GIs -- 2 Keeping the ‘brown babies’ -- 3 ‘Brown babies’ relinquished -- 4 Adoption, fostering and attempts to send the babies to the US -- 5 Secrets and lies -- 6 After the war and beyond -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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