{"id":2788,"date":"2009-11-04T04:11:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T04:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2016-04-01T16:06:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:06:59","slug":"brown-babies-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2788","title":{"rendered":"Brown Babies in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radcliffe.edu\/about\/quarterly\/w07_carby.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Brown Babies in Britain<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Radcliffe Quarterly<br \/>\nWinter 2007<br \/>\nDean&#8217;s Lecture Series<\/p>\n<p><strong>Julia Hanna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When white British women met black servicemen during <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\">World War II<\/a>, mixed-race children sometimes resulted from their relationships.<\/strong> In her November 2 [2007] Dean\u2019s Lecture, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yale.edu\/amstud\/faculty\/carby.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hazel V. Carby<\/a> addressed issues of race and class by drawing on scholarship and personal experience as one of the \u201cbrown babies\u201d who caused social consternation and marked, according to Carby, the beginnings of Britain as a racialized state. <strong>Her lecture was titled \u201cBrown Babies: The Birth of Britain as a Racialized State, 1943\u20131948.\u201d<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yet her research into memos sent between various branches of the British government shows an acute awareness of West Indian servicemen as well as black American troops stationed in Britain. Concern was expressed that a \u201csocial problem\u201d might arise if nonwhites mixed with the local white population during the war or stayed in Britain after the war, and a program of covert racial segregation was put in place to monitor and manage black troops. <strong>When relationships and pregnancies resulted between white women and black men despite such interventions, the women were often counseled to give up their children and avoid marriage.<\/strong> Although her own parents ignored this advice, Carby has continued to search for the depersonalized meaning of her \u201chalf-caste\u201d presence in the public sphere by studying memory, history, and citizenship, all of which she hopes to address in a forthcoming work, \u201cChild of Empire: Racializing Subjects in Post WWII Britain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, a professor of American studies, and director of the Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization at Yale University, Carby is the author of Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America (Verso, 1999).<\/p>\n<p>To watch Carby\u2019s lecture, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radcliffe.edu\/events\/video.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown Babies in Britain Radcliffe Quarterly Winter 2007 Dean&#8217;s Lecture Series Julia Hanna When white British women met black servicemen during World War II, mixed-race children sometimes resulted from their relationships. In her November 2 [2007] Dean\u2019s Lecture, Hazel V. Carby addressed issues of race and class by drawing on scholarship and personal experience as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,13,8,394,10,842],"tags":[968,967,966,965,969],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","category-videos","tag-britain","tag-hazel-v-carby","tag-julia-hanna","tag-radcliffe-quarterly","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46388,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions\/46388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}