1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Contents
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
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
