Germany's 'Brown Babies' Must Be Helped! Will You
U.S. Adoption Plans for Afro-German Children, 1950-1955
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7699708 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 342-362 |
| Publication date | 2003-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Callaloo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-2492 • E-ISSN: 1080-6512 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cal.2003.0052 |
| OpenAlex | W1984305645 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
This essay explores the debate that arose around the adoption of Black German children by African American parents and the subsequent immigration of these children to the United States. Using a comparative approach, the article probes the underlying internal social and political controversies in postwar Germany and the United States that led to and accompanied these events, concluding that both the plans for and practical implementation of the adoption of these Black German children abroad was an complex and contradictory attempt to solve the "problem" a German-born Black population was seen to pose
Economic history · German · German population · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Demography · European history and politics · Gender Studies · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · History · Law · Sociology and Education Studies
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| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,41 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |