Black GI Children in Post-World War II Europe
Seiten
2021
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1. Edition
V&R unipress (Verlag)
978-3-8471-1283-9 (ISBN)
V&R unipress (Verlag)
978-3-8471-1283-9 (ISBN)
An Issue that was until recently taboo
This volume addresses an issue that was until recently taboo: children fathered by Black American GIs who were stationed in Europe during and after World War II and whose mothers were local citizens. They were born into societies that defined themselves as White and rejected this extremely visible portion of the so-called occupation children.Black and White are in this volume not (only) understood as descriptions of skin color, but above all as social constructs and political categories with racist attributions and effects. The authors of the contributions examine the manner in which these mixed-race children and their mothers were treated by their societies and the respective authorities; they assess the experiences and self-understandings of the individuals affected; they discuss their institutionalization and the strategy practiced by the youth welfare agencies of giving these children up for adoption abroad; and finally they highlight how African American couples in the USA interpreted the adoption of these mixed-race children from Europe as an act of Black resistance against White supremacy.
This volume addresses an issue that was until recently taboo: children fathered by Black American GIs who were stationed in Europe during and after World War II and whose mothers were local citizens. They were born into societies that defined themselves as White and rejected this extremely visible portion of the so-called occupation children.Black and White are in this volume not (only) understood as descriptions of skin color, but above all as social constructs and political categories with racist attributions and effects. The authors of the contributions examine the manner in which these mixed-race children and their mothers were treated by their societies and the respective authorities; they assess the experiences and self-understandings of the individuals affected; they discuss their institutionalization and the strategy practiced by the youth welfare agencies of giving these children up for adoption abroad; and finally they highlight how African American couples in the USA interpreted the adoption of these mixed-race children from Europe as an act of Black resistance against White supremacy.
Ingrid Bauer, Zeit- und Kulturhistorikerin, war ao. Professorin an der Universität Salzburg und arbeitet jetzt als freie Autorin in Wien.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.01.2021 |
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| Co-Autor | Ingrid Bauer, Philipp Rohrbach, Azziza B. Malanda, Lucy Bland, Kelly Condit-Shrestha |
| Verlagsort | Göttingen |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 222 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Schlagworte | Adoption • austria • "Brown Babies" • “Brown Babies” • children born of war • children's home • Children’s Home • child welfare system • Gender History • Germany • GI • Great Britain • Interracial Relationships • Mixed-Race • Occupation Children • race studies • Racism • Transatlantic Studies • Women |
| ISBN-10 | 3-8471-1283-X / 384711283X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-8471-1283-9 / 9783847112839 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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