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A Nation s Undesirables Mixed Race Children and Whiteness in the Post Nazi Era Intersectional Rhe

by [Patton, Tracey Owens, Patton, Tracey Owens]

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In a moving blend of family history and cutting-edge scholarship, Tracey Owens Patton's A Nation's Undesirables synthesizes work in rhetorical postmemory studies, critical adoption studies, Afrofuturism, and more to tell the story of her mother and aunt, Lore and Lilli. Two of thousands of children born to white German women and Black American men after World War II, the twins moved to the United States at age seven, where their mother renounced her parental rights and put them into the adoption system. They did not see her again for fifty-two years.

Patton takes up the twins' story and their reckoning with their mixed-race, Black German identity to disrupt standard narratives around World War II, Black experiences in Germany, and race and adoption. Combining family interviews, historical artifacts, and autoethnographic reflection, Patton composes a new narrative of women and Black German children in the postwar era. In examining the systemic racism of Germany's efforts to move children like Lore and Lilli out of the country-and the suppression of German women's bodily autonomy-Patton amplifies the once unacknowledged identities of these Black German children to broaden our understanding of citizenship, racism, and sexism after World War II.

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  • Ohio State University Pre Brand
  • Apr 15, 2024 Pub Date:
  • 9780814259078 ISBN-13:
  • 0814259073 ISBN-10:
  • English Language
  • 9 in * 0.6 in * 6 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: