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During the Second World\xa0War, an estimated 2,000 babies were fathered by African-American GIs stationed in Britain. Lucy Bland reveals how these mixed-race children faced discrimination in the streets and ambivalence from the government, and\xa0why so\xa0many were given up by their mothers.\n\xa0\n\xa0(Ad) Lucy Bland is the author of\xa0Britain's \u2018Brown Babies\u2019: The Stories of Children Born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War\xa0(Manchester University Press, 2019). Buy it now from Amazon:\xa0https://www.amazon.co.uk/Britains-%60Brown-Babies-Stories-Children/dp/1526133261/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-hexpod\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices