{"id":58165,"date":"2019-05-25T02:37:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T02:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58165"},"modified":"2019-05-25T17:50:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T17:50:34","slug":"yet-governments-ambivalence-towards-the-brown-babies-remained-the-children-were-not-white-and-therefore-not-truly-british-since-britishness-assumed-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58165","title":{"rendered":"Yet government\u2019s ambivalence towards the \u201cbrown babies\u201d remained. The children were not white and therefore not truly \u201cBritish\u201d, since Britishness assumed whiteness."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Yet government\u2019s ambivalence towards the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brown_Babies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brown babies<\/a>\u201d remained. The children were not white and therefore not truly \u201cBritish\u201d, since Britishness assumed whiteness. In addition, a mixed-race <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G.I._(military)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GI<\/a> baby stood out as a visual marker of the black soldier having indeed, as the comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tommy_Trinder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tommy Trinder<\/a> was well-known for quipping, been \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/oversexed-overpaid-and-over-here.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over-paid, over-fed, over-sexed and over-here<\/a>\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lucy Bland, <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thousands of mixed-race British babies were born in World War II \u2013 and adoption by their black American fathers was blocked<\/a>,<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u201d<\/span> <em>The Conversation<\/em>, May 16, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/thousands-of-mixed-race-british-babies-were-born-in-world-war-ii-and-adoption-by-their-black-american-fathers-was-blocked-116790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/thousands-of-mixed-race-british-babies-were-born-in-world-war-ii-and-adoption-by-their-black-american-fathers-was-blocked-116790<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet government\u2019s ambivalence towards the \u201cbrown babies\u201d remained. The children were not white and therefore not truly \u201cBritish\u201d, since Britishness assumed whiteness. In addition, a mixed-race GI baby stood out as a visual marker of the black soldier having indeed, as the comedian Tommy Trinder was well-known for quipping, been \u201cover-paid, over-fed, over-sexed and over-here\u201d. 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