A nation's undesirables : mixed-race children and whiteness in the post-Nazi era / / Tracey Owens Patton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910888793203321
• Autore: Patton Tracey Owens
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: The Ohio State University Press
• Disciplina: 305.8/05960310430904
• Soggetti: Black people - Germany - History - 20th century; Multiracial children - Germany - Social conditions; World War, 1939-1945 - Black people - Germany; Racism - Germany; Adoptees - Family relationships - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Challenging the historical narrative : braiding memory, postmemory, and critical imagination -- Construction of race and nation : a history of Black Germany -- Jim Crow in the European theater : institutionalizing anti-Blackness in Germany -- Womb wars : interracial relationships and the historical construction of white German identity -- Aborted out of Germany : born, kept, and abandoned -- The transatlantic appeal of Jim Crow : reclaimed, abandoned, and adopted -- A family reunion and generational trauma.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Takes up the story of the author's family and their reckoning with their mixed-race, Black German identity to disrupt typical narratives around World War II, the Black experience in Germany, and race and adoption"--