{"id":57539,"date":"2019-02-10T22:57:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T22:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57539"},"modified":"2019-02-10T22:57:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T22:57:48","slug":"enemies-in-love-a-german-pow-a-black-nurse-and-an-unlikely-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57539","title":{"rendered":"Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New Press<\/a>
\nMay 2018
\n288 pages
\n5\u00bd x 8\u00bc
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-1-62097-186-4<\/p>\n

Alexis Clark<\/strong><\/a>, Adjunct Faculty
\nColumbia Journalism School, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Enemies<\/a><\/p>\n

A true and deeply moving narrative of forbidden love during World War II<\/a> and a shocking, hidden history of race on the home front<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a love story like no other: Elinor Powell was an African American nurse in the U.S. military during World War II<\/a>; Frederick Albert was a soldier in Hitler\u2019s army<\/a>, captured by the Allies<\/a> and shipped to a prisoner-of-war camp<\/a> in the Arizona<\/a> desert. Like most other black nurses, Elinor pulled a second-class assignment, in a dusty, sun-baked\u2014and segregated\u2014Western<\/a> town. The army figured that the risk of fraternization between black nurses and white German POWs<\/a> was almost nil.<\/p>\n

Brought together by unlikely circumstances in a racist world, Elinor and Frederick should have been bitter enemies; but instead, at the height of World War II, they fell in love. Their dramatic story was unearthed by journalist Alexis Clark, who through years of interviews and historical research has pieced together an astounding narrative of race and true love in the cauldron of war.<\/p>\n

Based on a New York Times<\/em> story by Clark<\/a> that drew national attention, Enemies in Love<\/em> paints a tableau of dreams deferred and of love struggling to survive, twenty-five years before the Supreme Court\u2019s Loving<\/em> decision legalizing mixed-race marriage\u2014revealing the surprising possibilities for human connection during one of history\u2019s most violent conflicts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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