{"id":59680,"date":"2021-10-27T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59680"},"modified":"2022-06-03T21:47:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T21:47:19","slug":"dutch-children-of-african-american-liberators-race-military-policy-and-identity-in-world-war-ii-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59680","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Children of African American Liberators: Race, Military Policy and Identity in World War II and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/dutch-children-of-african-american-liberators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Dutch Children of African American Liberators: Race, Military Policy and Identity in World War II and Beyond<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/dutch-children-of-african-american-liberators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McFarland<\/a><br \/>\n2020-09-30<br \/>\n50 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index<br \/>\n6&#215;9<br \/>\nSoftcover ISBN: 978-1-4766-7693-7<br \/>\neBook ISBN: 978-1-4766-4114-0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vantilt.nl\/auteurs\/mieke-kirkels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mieke Kirkels<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisdickon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Chris Dickon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/dutch-children-of-african-american-liberators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/978-1-4766-7693-7.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Winner, Non-Fiction: Multicultural Book Award\u2014International Afro-American Historical &amp; Genealogical Society<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Netherlands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Netherlands<\/a>, a small group of biracial citizens has entered its eighth decade of lives that have been often puzzling and difficult, but which offer a unique insight into the history of race relations in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America<\/a>. Though their African American fathers had brought liberation from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazi_Germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nazi<\/a> tyranny at the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World War II<\/a>, they had arrived in a segregated American military that derived from a racially divisive American society.<\/p>\n<p>Decades later, some of their children could finally know of a father\u2019s identity and the life he had led after the war. Just one would be able to find an embrace in his arms, and just one to visit her father\u2019s American grave after 73 years. But they could now understand their own Dutch lives in the context of their fathers\u2019 lives in America. This book relates their experiences, offering fresh insight into the history of American race relations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Preface<\/li>\n<li>One\u00ad\u2014War Babies<\/li>\n<li>Two\u2014Social Reality, Military Policy<\/li>\n<li>Three\u2014Liberation and Slavery<\/li>\n<li>Four\u2014Aftermath<\/li>\n<li>Five\u2014Margraten<\/li>\n<li>Six\u2014Limited Service<\/li>\n<li>Seven\u2014Liberation Children<\/li>\n<li>Eight\u2014In England<\/li>\n<li>Nine\u2014Out of England<\/li>\n<li>Ten\u2014Occupation Babies<\/li>\n<li>Eleven\u2014Adulthood<\/li>\n<li>Twelve\u2014Settling Lives<\/li>\n<li>Thirteen\u2014International Families<\/li>\n<li>Afterword by Sebastiaan Vonk<\/li>\n<li><em>About the Authors<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Appendix: Relevant World War II Era Law and Custom for International Marriage, Immigration, Birth Status, Adoption and Assistance<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Chapter Notes<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Bibliography<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Index<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Netherlands, a small group of biracial citizens has entered its eighth decade of lives that have been often puzzling and difficult, but which offer a unique insight into the history of race relations in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,28,459,17,20],"tags":[30859,30857,4951,32193],"class_list":["post-59680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-europe","category-history","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-chris-dickon","tag-mieke-kirkels","tag-netherlands","tag-sebastiaan-vonk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59680","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=59680"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63903,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59680\/revisions\/63903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}