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  • Germany’s ‘Brown Babies’: The Difficult Identities of Post-War Black Children of GIs

    For many of the now-adult children of white German women and African-American GIs, adopted by families in the United States after World War II, the search for the truth has been difficult. Online communities are helping.

  • Beyond Liverpool, 1957: Travel, diaspora, and migration in Jamal Mahjoub’s The Drift Latitudes

    Beyond Liverpool, 1957: Travel, diaspora, and migration in Jamal Mahjoub’s The Drift Latitudes The Journal of Commonwealth Literature Volume 46, Number 3 (September 2011) pages 493-511 DOI: 10.1177/0021989411409813 Jopi Nyman, Professor University of Eastern Finland, Finland This essay discusses the novel The Drift Latitudes (2006) by the Anglo-Sudanese author Jamal Mahjoub. By telling the stories…

  • Mixed Race Britain – How The World Got Mixed Up

    Mixed Race Britain – How The World Got Mixed Up BBC Press Office: Press Packs 2011-09-05 Ruth Williams, Seretse Khama and family This one-off documentary explores the historical and contemporary social, sexual and political attitudes to race mixing. Throughout modern history, interracial sex has been one of society’s great taboos, and across many parts of…

  • Mixed Race Britain – Mixed Britannia

    Mixed Race Britain – Mixed Britannia BBC Press Office: Press Packs 2011-09-05 In this three-part series George Alagiah explores the remarkable and untold story of Britain’s mixed-race community and examines through the decades how mixed race has become one of the country’s fastest growing ethnic groups. Most of all, the films tell a tale of…

  • My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir

    My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir Simon and Schuster October 2011 368 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 1451627548; ISBN-13: 9781451627541 eBook ISBN-10: 1451627564; ISBN-13: 9781451627565 Mark Whitaker In a dramatic, moving work of historical reporting and personal discovery, Mark Whitaker, award-winning journalist, sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating…

  • A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany

    A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany Palgrave Macmillan September 2010 282 pages 6 x 9 1/4 inches, Includes: 50 pgs illus Paperback ISBN: 978-0-230-10473-0, ISBN10: 0-230-10473-8 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10472-3, ISBN10: 0-230-10472-X Maria Höhn, Professor of History Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Martin Klimke, Research Fellow German Historical Institute,…

  • GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany

    GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany University of North Carolina Press December 2001 360 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 13 photos, 1 map, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5375-7 Maria Höhn, Professor of History Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state…

  • Book Review Essay – The Legacy of Jim Crow: The Enduring Taboo of Black-White Romance

    Book Review Essay – The Legacy of Jim Crow: The Enduring Taboo of Black-White Romance Texas Law Review Volume 84, Number 3 (February 2006) pages 739-766 Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies Univesity of California, Davis Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond. By…

  • Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany

    Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany HarperCollins 480 pages 2001 ISBN: 9780060959616 Hans J. Massaquoi (1926-2013) This is a story of the unexpected. In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir—an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. The son…

  • Lest we forget: the children they left behind: the life experience of adults born to black GIs and British women during the Second World War

    Lest we forget: the children they left behind: the life experience of adults born to black GIs and British women during the Second World War The University of Melbourne 1999 177 pages Janet Baker An estimated 22,000 children were born in England during the Second World War as a result of relationships between British women…