{"id":29280,"date":"2013-02-28T04:18:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T04:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29280"},"modified":"2016-04-01T15:59:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:59:02","slug":"brown-babies-post-war-germanys-mixed-race-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29280","title":{"rendered":"‘Brown Babies:’ Post-war Germany’s Mixed-race Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Brown Babies:’ Post-war Germany’s Mixed-race Children<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Washington Informer<\/a>
\nWashington, D.C.
\n2012-02-27<\/p>\n

Barrington M. Salmon<\/strong><\/p>\n

For much of his adult life, Daniel Cardwell has been immersed in a search for his identity and his past.<\/p>\n

He told an audience at Bowie State University recently that he remembers a childhood where he was never hugged or shown love by the couple who adopted him, and it was a childhood filled with “confusion, questions and secrets.”<\/p>\n

“I was a brown baby looking for mama, someone who wanted to belong. Abandonment and rejection are two emotions we all have,” said Cardwell during a panel discussion after the airing of the documentary, Brown Babies, The Mischlingkinder Story<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Cardwell is one of an estimated 100,000 biracial children born to German women and African-American servicemen stationed in Europe during World War II. He was brought to the United States when he was three and grew up with a couple who raised him along with five other mixed race German children. Cardwell traveled to six times and spent 30 years and $250,000 in his quest for greater knowledge of his background and heritage…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Brown Babies:’ Post-war Germany’s Mixed-race Children The Washington Informer Washington, D.C. 2012-02-27 Barrington M. Salmon For much of his adult life, Daniel Cardwell has been immersed in a search for his identity and his past. He told an audience at Bowie State University recently that he remembers a childhood where he was never hugged or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,459,125,8,20],"tags":[13815,13816,11803,13814,2948,13813,13817,13818,969],"class_list":["post-29280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-barrington-m-salmon","tag-barrington-salmon","tag-daniel-cardwell","tag-doris-mcmillon","tag-germany","tag-regina-griffin","tag-the-washington-informer","tag-washington-informer","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29280","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=29280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46352,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29280\/revisions\/46352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}