Britain's 'Brown Babies': The Stories of Children Born to Black GIS and White Women in the Second World War

by Lucy Bland

Book Overview

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 marry their white girl-friends. Nearly half of the children were given up to children's homes but few were adopted, thought 'too hard to place'. There has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526133261
• ISBN13: 9781526133267
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.6"