Britain's 'brown babies'

Britain's 'brown babies'Author: Lucy Bland ISBN: 9781526133267 Publisher: Manchester University Press Year first published: 21 May 2019 Pages: 288 Format: Hardback 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

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She reveals some of the anxieties about what it meant to belong to different ethnic or religious communities and how these communities interacted with each other within the fluid boundaries of the Mediterranean world

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a lady journalist encounters a brilliant detective who's able to decode and solve some of the city's most complicated crimes

Year first published: 10 Feb 2017

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This is an exceptional work of historical investigation