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Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific : The Children of Indigenous Women and U.S. Servicemen, World War II by Rosemary E Anderson; Judith A Bennett; Kathryn Creely; Alumita Durutalo; Jacqueline Leckie; Saui'a Louise Marie Tuimanuolo Mataia-Milo; Kate Stevens; Angela Wanhalla is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Over the course of World War II, two million American military personnel occupied bases throughout the South Pacific, leaving behind a human legacy of at least 4,000 children born to indigenous mothers. Based on interviews conducted with many of these American-indigenous children and several of the surviving mothers, __Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific__ explores the intimate relationships that existed between untold numbers of U.S. servicemen and indigenous women during the war and considers the fate of their mixed-race children. These relationships developed in the major U.S. bases of the South Pacific Command, from Bora Bora in the east across to Solomon Islands in the west, and from the Gilbert Islands in the north to New Zealand, in the southernmost region of the Pacific. The American military command carefully managed interpersonal encounters between the sexes, applying race-based U.S. immigration law on Pacific peoples to prevent marriage “across the color line.” For indigenous women and their American servicemen sweethearts, legal marriage was impossible; giving rise to a generation of fatherless children, most of whom grew up wanting to know more about their American

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Author

Rosemary E Anderson; Judith A Bennett; Kathryn Creely; Alumita Durutalo; Jacqueline Leckie; Saui'a Louise Marie Tuimanuolo Mataia-Milo; Kate Stevens; Angela Wanhalla

Publisher

University of Hawai'i Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824851521

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Humanities