Democratizing the racial state : toward a transnational history -- Contract zones : American military occupation and the politics of race -- Flaccid fatherland : rape, sex, and the reproductive consequences of defeat -- "Mischlingskinder" and the postwar taxonomy of race -- Reconstruction in black and white : the Toxi films -- Whose children, theirs or ours? Intercountry adoptions and debates about belonging -- Legacies : race and the postwar nation
Summary
Heide Fehrenbach traces the complex history of German attitudes to race following 1945 by focusing on the experiences of and the debates surrounding the several thousand postwar children born to African American GIs and their German partners
